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1 online resource (212 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-212). |
Contents |
Mother Box -- Conversation -- The dinner party -- A white hat on his head, two wooden legs -- The groomsmen -- A terrible thing -- The cherry tree -- Listen -- Many things, including this -- A category of glamour -- A beautiful girl, a well loved one -- The silent woman. |
Summary |
The eleven stories and one novella of Mother Box, and Other Tales bring together everyday reality and something that is dramatically not in compelling narratives of new possibilities. In language that is both barb and bauble, bitter and unbearably sweet, Sarah Blackman spins the threads of stories where everything is probable and nothing is constant. The stories in Mother Box, and Other Tales occur in an in-between world of outlandish possibility that has become irrefutable reality: a woman gives birth to seven babies and realizes at one of their weddings that they we. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Short stories.
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Short stories. |
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Electronic books.
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Fiction.
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Fiction.
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Added Title |
Short stories. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013021840
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Other Form: |
Print version: Blackman, Sarah, 1980- Short stories. Selections. Mother Box 9781573661744 (DLC) 2013013567 (OCoLC)841187565 |
ISBN |
9781573668422 (electronic book) |
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1573668427 (electronic book) |
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9781573661744 |
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1573661740 |
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