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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814019903321

Autore

Allen Edward <1948->

Titolo

Ate it anyway : stories / / by Ed Allen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8203-4481-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

viii, 182 p

Collana

The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

Disciplina

813/.6

Soggetti

Short stories, American

American fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- ate it anyway -- contents -- acknowledgments -- river of toys -- celibacy-by-the-atlantic -- night of the red palm -- wickersham day -- ralph goes to mexico -- hungry hungry hippos -- burt osborne rules the world -- how to swallow -- a lover's guide to hospitals -- in a city with dogs -- a bend among bumblebees -- ashes north -- hot plate -- a puddle of sex books -- singing pumpkins -- a foolish but lovable airport -- the flannery o'connor award for short fiction.

Sommario/riassunto

These lyrical tales celebrate the ordinary--and the not so ordinary--with a flourish of Nabokovian wit that combines grandeur, kitsch, and the author's broad empathy with his characters.