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Dreams of a robot dancing bee : 44 stories / by James Tate.
Van Pelt Library PS3570.A8 D74 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tate, James, 1943-2015.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 229 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [Amherst, Mass.] : Verse Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- The 44 stories of "Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee"-long-awaited by fans of Tate's poetry-will come as a welcome surprise to readers unfamiliar with his previous work. Tate seems both awed and bemused by small town life, with its legends, flights of fancy, heightened emotions, tragedies and small ruptures in the fabric of ordinary existence.
- Contents:
- The thistle
- What is it
- The north country
- At the Ritz
- The invisible twins
- Welcome signs
- Despair ice cream
- Running for your life
- Robes
- Diane and Miriam
- Little man, what now?
- Suite 1306
- A window of sociability
- Her life's adventure
- Vacation
- Raven of dawn
- Friends
- Dear customer
- The new teacher
- Hedges, by Sam d'Amico
- Above the river
- The torque-master of advanced video
- The examination
- Our country cousins
- Eating out of mousetraps
- Almost a man
- Pie
- Traces of plague found near Reagan Ranch
- Manson
- Mush
- Thanksgiving: the right way
- Folk song
- The demonstration
- Beep
- My burden
- The stove
- Sweethaven
- TV
- A cloud of dust
- Dreams of a robot dancing bee
- The journey west
- Captured
- Dewey's song
- Farewell, I love you, and goodbye.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Tate, James, 1943- Dreams of a robot dancing bee.
- ISBN:
- 0970367252
- 9780970367259
- OCLC:
- 48140656
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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