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Some kinds of love : stories / Steve Yates

Author
Yates, Steve B., 1968-
Uniform Title
Short stories. Selections
Published
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (vii, 258 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Starfall -- Pleasures of the neighborhood -- Homecoming -- New father -- Hunter, seeker -- The fencing lady -- Forgery -- The green tomato Marquesa's night of a thousand and one triumphs -- Tuesdays at the center for excellence -- Report on performance art in one province of the empire, especially in regard to three exhibitions involving swine -- Coin of the realm -- Mila joins the game.
Summary
Sometimes the opposite of love is not hate, but depravity. In these twelve stories set in the Missouri Ozarks, New Orleans, and Mississippi, Steve Yates reveals lovers clawing back from precipices of destructiveness, obsessiveness, cruelty, vanity, or greed. They seek escape and yet find new barriers, realizing true love may not be at all what they imagined. Pioneers, limestone quarry owners, young German American Civil War survivors, bankers, sex toy catalog designers, highway engineers, Pakistani terrorists, attorneys, missile guidance masterminds, and furniture factory workers (who can see the future) populate these pieces. From the Ozarks of the 1830s, when locals perceive doomsday in a historic starfall, to the near future at an all-night slow-pitch softball tournament when Armageddon looms yet again, these stories chart the dark side of love, the ties that bind families, and the sweet complications of human desire.
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ISBN
9781613762646 (electronic bk.)
161376264X (electronic bk.)
9781625340283
1625340281
9781625340276
1625340273
Awards
Juniper Prize for Fiction, 2012.
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