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Autore: |
Henry Jim <1962->
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Titolo: |
Thank you for being concerned and sensitive [[electronic resource] /] / Jim Henry
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Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, Iowa, : University of Iowa Press, c1997 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (153 p.) |
Disciplina: | 813 |
813/.54 | |
Soggetto topico: | Short stories, American |
American fiction | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Thank you for being concerned and sensitive ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-58729-107-X |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910456406003321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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