A near-perfect gift / R.M. Kinder.
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- Author/Creator:
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- Language:
- English
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- Physical Description:
- 178 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- The stories in A Near-Perfect Gift revolve around the often hardscrabble small-town life in one rural village. Like any other community inhabited by the human race, it's a place where the banal and the improbable coalesce, a place with its share of common tragedies and uncommon madmen: some howl at the moon, while others turn out to be heroes. It is within the perimeter of this offbeat microcosm of the world that seemingly small questions-often the kind that children ask, arising from a child's imagined understanding of how the adult world works-assume an eerie portent.
- Contents:
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- Going into battle
- Ghosts
- Madman's moon
- Pulse of the world
- The promise
- A winter snake
- Searching for heroes
- Blue baby
- A near-perfect gift
- An intimate gesture
- Friday fishermen
- Late fall
- With a change of seasons.
- ISBN:
- 0472031066
- OCLC:
- 57652377
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