Thank you for being concerned and sensitive [[electronic resource] /] / Jim Henry
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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 | |
| 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.: | 9910778729003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Iowa short fiction award.