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UNINA9910479897103321 |
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Hughes Steve |
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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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1 online resource (1 PDF (173 pages).) |
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Made in Michigan writers series |
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Short stories. |
Short stories, American |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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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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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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UNINA9910785823003321 |
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Autore |
Hulek Klaus |
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Moduli spaces of Abelian surfaces [[electronic resource] ] : compactification, degenerations, and theta functions / / by Klaus Hulek, Constantin Kahn, Steven H. Weintraub |
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Berlin ; ; New York, : W. de Gruyter, 1993 |
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[Reprint 2011] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (360 p.) |
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De Gruyter expositions in mathematics ; ; 12 |
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KahnConstantin <1960-> |
WeintraubSteven H |
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Moduli theory |
Abelian varieties |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- I Compactified moduli spaces -- 1 Moduli spaces -- 2 Torus embeddings and applications -- 3 Toroidal compactification of A(1, p) -- 4 The boundary of A*(1, p) -- 5 Humbert surfaces and scaffoldings -- 6 The Satake compactification -- II Degenerations of abelian surfaces -- 1 Mumford's construction -- 2 The basic construction for surfaces -- 3 Degenerate abelian surfaces (the principally polarized case) -- 4 Degenerate abelian surfaces (the case of (1,p)-polarization) -- 5 Polarizations on degenerate abelian surfaces -- III The Horrocks-Mumford map -- 1 The Horrocks-Mumford bundle -- 2 Construction of the Horrocks-Mumford map -- 3 Extension of the Horrocks-Mumford map to A(1, 5) -- 4 Extension of the Horrocks-Mumford map to A* (1, 5) -- Bibliography -- Glossary of Notations -- Index |
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Moduli Spaces of Abelian Surfaces: Compactification, Degenerations and Theta Functions. |
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UNINA9910798988103321 |
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Autore |
Ryan Howard |
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Educational justice : teaching and organizing against the corporate juggernaut / / Howard Ryan with Debra Goodman, Joel Jordan, and Joseph Zeccola |
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New York : , : Monthly Review Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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1 online resource (182 pages) : illustrations, tables |
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Teachers' unions - United States |
Privatization in education - United States |
Business and education - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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