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Henry Jim <1962-> |
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Titolo |
Thank you for being concerned and sensitive [[electronic resource] /] / Jim Henry |
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Iowa City, Iowa, : University of Iowa Press, c1997 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (153 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Iowa short fiction award |
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Soggetti |
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Short stories, American |
American fiction |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Motherhurt; Gladys Knows; The Flood; Congressman Spoonbender; The Earthling!; The Prodigal Corpse; Observer Status; Jesus; The Main Event; The Last of the Plaids; "Yes!" Wins; Mouthfeel |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Jim Henry's stories defy convention. There are no easy answers, no quick fixes. Although the plots vary-from a corpse returning to visit his family weeks after his burial, to the musings of a congressman grappling with the weight of history, to a wealthy family's elaborate plot to cheer their mysteriously wounded mother-all express a sense of the extraordinary in the ordinary, the absurd in the everyday.Henry's characters are for the most part misfits, outsiders looking in on a world whose seemingly natural order is turned upside down. In a throw-away culture obsessed wit |
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