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UNINA9910454335603321 |
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Waters Don <1974-> |
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Desert gothic [[electronic resource] /] / Don Waters |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2007 |
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1 online resource (167 p.) |
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The Iowa short fiction award |
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Short stories, American - 21st century |
Electronic books. |
Southwest, New Fiction |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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What to do with the dead -- Sheets -- Mr. Epstein and the dealer -- Dan Buck -- Mineral and steel -- Blood management -- Holiday at the Shamrock -- The bulls at San Luis -- Little sins -- Mormons in heat. |
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This powerful debut collection, set in the light-filled deserts of Nevada and Arizona, introduces a darkly inventive new voice. Like an early Richard Ford, Don Waters writes with skill, empathy, and an edgy wit of worlds not often celebrated in contemporary literature. Set in bars, mortuaries, nursing homes, truck stops, and the "poverty motels that encircled downtown's casino corridor," Waters's ten stories are full of misfit transients like Julian, a crematorium worker who decorates abandoned urns to create a "lush underground island," and the instant Mormon missionary Eli, a hapless d |
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UNINA9910793581103321 |
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Wilson Sugar Magnolia |
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Because a woman's heart is like a needle at the bottom of the ocean / / Sugar Magnolia Wilson |
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Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2019 |
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1-77671-031-2 |
1-77671-033-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (82 pages) |
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New Zealand poetry - 21st century |
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Dear Sister -- Anne Boleyn -- The monster -- Betty as a boy -- Newton Gully mix tape -- Conversation with my boyfriend -- Bathhouse night chat -- Home Alone 2 (with you) -- Full moon celebrations -- Heat wave -- Snow chart -- The moon and my 'house': a review of Haruki Murakami's novel, 1Q84 -- Pup art -- Final 80s exposé -- Glamour -- Moon-baller -- Spent -- Gingerly -- Spirit-liver -- Cabin -- Because a woman's heart is like a needle at the bottom of the ocean -- Crane fly -- Mother -- The lake has a long memory -- Muddy heart -- Town -- Bone tired -- The sleep of trees -- Dear X -- Pen pal. |
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