Big Bend : stories / / by Bill Roorbach

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811479903321
• Autore: Roorbach Bill
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2001
• ISBN: 0-8203-4626-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 174 p
• Disciplina: 813/.54
• Soggetti: Short stories, American; American fiction
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction."
• Nota di contenuto: Thanksgiving -- Blues machine -- A job at Little Henry's -- Taughannock Falls -- Fredonia -- Loneliness -- Fog -- Anthropology -- Big Bend.
• Sommario/riassunto: Through quirky plots, one-of-kind characters, and more than a few twists, the stories in Big Bend examine gentle-hearted men and their relationships. From made-in-heaven meetings to troublesome liaisons, Roorbach's characters experience romance in unexpected, sometimes disastrous ways.