Things kept, things left behind [[electronic resource] /] / Jim Tomlinson
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| Autore: |
Tomlinson Jim <1941->
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| Titolo: |
Things kept, things left behind [[electronic resource] /] / Jim Tomlinson
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (169 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.6 |
| Soggetto topico: | American poetry - 21st century |
| American literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | First husband, first wife -- Lake Charles -- The accomplished son -- Squirrels -- Things kept -- Paragon tea -- Flights -- Things left behind -- Marathon man -- Prologue (two lives in letters) -- Stainless. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The stories in Things Kept, Things Left Behind explore the ambiguities of kept secrets, the tangles of abandoned pasts, and uneasy accommodations. Jim Tomlinson's characters each face the desire to reclaim dreams left behind, along with something of the dreamer that was also lost. Starkly rendered, these spiraling characters inhabit a specific place and class---small-town Kentucky, working-class America---but the stories, told in all their humor and tragedy, are universal. In each story the characters face conflict, sometimes within themselves, sometimes with each other. Each carries a past an |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Things kept, things left behind |
| ISBN: | 1-58729-768-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827018803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Iowa short fiction award.