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A jeweler's eye for flaw : stories / Christie Hodgen.
Van Pelt Library PS3608.O47 J49 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hodgen, Christie, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 167 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- In this striking debut collection, Christie Hodgen examines the shifting fortunes of several hard-pressed American families, charting their triumphs and failures with honesty and precision. Humor, loneliness, optimism, and despair commingle in these memorable stories.
- Contents:
- A jeweler's eye for flaw
- Take them in, please
- Three parting shots and a forecast
- Going out of business forever
- What the rabbi said to the priest
- Sir Karl LaFong or current resident
- The great Americans
- The hero of loneliness
- The tender of unmarked graves.
- Notes:
- "Winner of the Associated Writing Programs 2001 Award in Short Fiction"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 1558493743
- OCLC:
- 49822934
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