| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Contents |
A violence -- The grifted -- The dark spot -- Women in wells -- Marbles loosed -- Bent back -- Ratman -- The wrong sister -- Somebody else's -- Half -- Judgment Day -- Hammer, damper -- Unaccounted -- The crickets try to organize themselves into some raucous pentameter -- A heaven gone -- Like lightning -- Before we pass this way again -- The chamber of the enigma -- The Colleens -- Engrossed -- The direction of forgetting -- Roundabout the bottom -- Tangle -- Points on staying alive during that old war -- Felted -- Entered -- A willingness & warning -- More mysteries -- Twins, or ambivalence -- Prison windows -- The tackiness of souls -- Hospitable madness -- Prowlers -- Filch and rot -- Recipe for her absence -- Both fruit and flower -- Configuration -- The effects of rotation -- The things which blind us -- Let me be your tugboat king -- Alcyone -- The hush of the party. |
| Summary |
A thief steals the air from a room. Children invent a nursery rhyme to make sense of their fate, and a band of girls rots from the outside in. These characters stumble through joy and murder and confusion, only to survive and wait for the next catastrophe to arrive. |
| Subject |
FICTION / General
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Short stories, American.
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Short stories, American. (OCoLC)fst01117064
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories, American.
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Short stories, American. (OCoLC)fst01750175
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| Added Title |
Short stories. Selections
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781936873531 1936873532 (DLC) 2014013914 |
| ISBN |
1941531806 electronic bk. |
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9781941531808 electronic bk. |
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