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A brief history of the flood / stories by Jean Harfenist.
Van Pelt Library PS3608.A73 B75 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harfenist, Jean.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs.
- Minnesota--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Minnesota.
- Working class families--Fiction.
- Working class families.
- Rural families--Fiction.
- Rural families.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 212 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
- Summary:
- Acorn Lake kids swim better than they walk, and most never consider leaving Sioux County. It is precisely this small-town life that makes "A Brief History of the Flood" so extraordinary. These 11 linked stories form a startling drama about the trials of Lillian Anderson and her family as they scratch their way down a small-town Minnesota social ladder.
- Contents:
- Floating
- Body count
- Duck season
- The gift
- Salad girls
- Voluntary breathers
- Safety off, not a shot fired
- Pixie dust
- The road out of Acorn Lake
- Fully bonded by the state of Minnesota
- The history of the flood.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi book."--T.p.verso.
- ISBN:
- 0375413936 :
- OCLC:
- 49997322
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