| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 164 pages .). |
| Series |
Flannery O'Connor award for short fiction |
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Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
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| Contents |
Out Of The Mouths Of Babes -- Dead Horse Productions -- Key Phrases -- Elegantly, In The Least Number Of Steps -- A Country Woman -- Line Of Questioning -- Improvisation -- The Slide Turned On End -- Ornament And Crime -- Snippet And The Rainbow Bridge -- The Chautauqua Sessions. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
In the eleven kaleidoscopic stories that make up Bright Shards of Someplace Else, Monica McFawn traces the combustive, hilarious, and profound effects that occur when people misread the minds of others. The characters-an array of artists, scientists, songwriters, nannies, horse trainers, and poets-often try to pin down another's point of view, only to find that their own worldview is far from fixed. The characters in McFawn's stories long for and fear the encroachment of others. A young boy reduces his nanny's phone bill with a call, then convinces her he can solve her other problems. A man w. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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FICTION -- Short Stories (single author)
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Short stories, American. (OCoLC)fst01117064
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| Added Title |
Short stories. Selections
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780820346878 082034687X (DLC) 2013049714 (OCoLC)868147553 |
| ISBN |
9780820347769 (electronic bk.) |
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0820347760 (electronic bk.) |
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