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Our former lives in art : (stories) / Jennifer S. Davis.
Van Pelt Library PS3604.A96 O94 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Jennifer S., 1973-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Southern States--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Southern States.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 194 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, [2007]
- Summary:
- Set against the backdrop of the Deep South, these nine haunting stories explore big themes-authenticity, the relinquishing of childhood, the acceptance of dreams lost-in a way that ultimately affirms the act of living and the value of human relationships. In "Giving Up the Ghost," a man sits beside a fatal car wreck to share the last moments of a stranger's life. In "Witnessing," a young woman befriends her lover's ailing wife. In "Rapture," a housewife's unexpected romantic encounter during a tornado rocks her tidy suburban existence. How do we become who we are? And what makes us love one another? With empathy, wit, and beautiful language, Davis blends the real and the imagined to create a kaleidoscope of the human heart.
- Contents:
- Giving up the ghost
- Lovely Lily
- Ava Bean
- Blue moon
- Rapture
- Pilgrimage in Georgia
- Witnessing
- Detritus
- Our former lives in art.
- Notes:
- "A Random House trade paperback original"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 1400063299
- 9781400063291
- 0812973526
- 9780812973525
- OCLC:
- 71210314
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