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UNINA9910479897103321 |
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Autore |
Hughes Steve |
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Titolo |
Stiff / by Steve Hughes |
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Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2018 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2018 |
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©2018 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 PDF (173 pages).) |
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Collana |
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Made in Michigan writers series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Short stories. |
Short stories, American |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Stiff: Stories by Steve Hughes -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Lucky Fucking Day -- Only Wilma -- I Am Still Learning About the World -- Ripening -- Her Walls Not Mine -- When Drink, Drugs, and Floor Polish Steal Your Youth and Trash Your Woman -- Dexter's Song -- Part Plant, Part Animal, Part Insect -- New Phase -- The Perfect Song -- Forest Parker, Poet Laureate of Lumpkin Street -- Wood for Rhonda -- Bullets for Charlene -- God, That Kimchi! -- I Don't Feel Sorry For Mrs. Miller -- Ted and His Heartbeat -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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With a hearty helping of Detroit grit, the stories in Stiff pay homage to a city turned upside down by economic abandonment. Steve Hughes pushes the boundaries of realism, creating situations that seem odd and otherworldly. In his Detroit, witches cast spells to improve their husbands, chickens grow from seeds, and house painters with anger management issues proclaim themselves poet laureates. The characters in Stiff are all searching for something in each other--a certain wholeness or understanding, a place to rest and call home. Hughes writes with great empathy about people who are struggling with their lives. In "Ripening," a man and woman in an illicit affair witness their genitals leaving their bodies for a rendezvous. In "Dexter's Song," a |
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drug-addicted saxophone player meets a bored suburban woman who gives him her ex-boyfriend's sax, which unleashes a series of disasters but the instrument is so fine, so perfect, that when he holds it to his lips he can do no wrong. Readers of contemporary fiction will enjoy this inventive and evocative collection of stories. |
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UNISA996392544003316 |
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Autore |
Preston John <1587-1628.> |
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The nevv covenant, or The saints portion [[electronic resource] ] : A treatise vnfolding the all-sufficiencie of God, mans vprightnes, and the covenant of grace. delivered in fourteene sermons vpon Gen. 17. 1,2. Wherevnto are adioyned foure sermons vpon Eccles. 9. 1.2.11.12. By the late faithfull and worthie minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston. Dr. in Divinitie, chaplaine in ordinary to his Maiestie, master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne |
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London, : Printed by J[ohn] D[awson, George Purslowe, and William Jones] for Nicolas Bourne, and are to be sold at the south entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1629 |
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Edizione |
[The third edition, corrected.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SibbesRichard <1577-1635.> |
DavenportJohn <1597-1670.> |
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Sermons, English - 17th century |
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Note generali |
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Editors' dedication signed: Richardus Sibs. Iohannes Davenport. |
Printers' names from STC. |
The last leaf is blank. |
Identified as STC 20244.1 on UMI microfilm reel 1527 (with a title page supplied in typescript from STC 20245). |
Reproductions of the originals in the Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). Library and the Harvard University. Library. |
Appears at reel 1527 (Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). Library copy) and at reel 1857 (Harvard University. Library copy). |
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