A .38 special and a broken heart : short-short stories / by Jonis Agee

Author:: Agee, Jonis
Additional Titles:: Thirty-eight special and a broken heart
Published:: Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, [1995]
St. Paul, MN : Distributor, Consortium Books Sales & Distribution.
Copyright Date:: ©1995
Physical Description:: 131 pages ; 20 cm.

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Series:

Coffee-to-go short-short stories series

Contents:

My mother's hands -- There has to be a beginning -- Size -- Politics -- His -- Living in waste places -- The family of death -- My last try -- In the town of Laura -- The gun -- The Jesus barber shop -- Invisible -- Gardening -- What's it like in there, they'll ask -- The change jar -- An arrangement with gravity -- Kenya -- What it means -- Cata: Something early -- Inheritance -- The first hunger -- On the road -- Cata's alphabet -- From the Texaco station behind my house -- Dead space -- The specific dreams of our republic -- Walking the dog -- Why blame the women? -- Doors -- The cruel gift of time -- Listen -- Asparagus -- Mustard.

Summary:

Twenty-nine stories whose protagonists are mainly women. In Invisible, a maid in a motel plots revenge on a travelling salesman who jilted her, while the heroine of Size braves public opprobrium to romance a dwarf. By the author of Strange Angels.

Subject(s):

Women—United States—Social life and customs—Fiction

ISBN:

1566890322
9781566890328

View MARC record | catkey: 11332337