Thoreau's laundry / stories by Ann Harleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harleman, Ann, 1945-

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

193 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 2007.

Summary:

The twelve stories in Ann Harleman's second fiction collection span a century (from 1911 to the present) and range over two continents. Her characters confront love and loss--heartbreak, adultery, divorce, chronic degenerative illness, disability, and death--within a context of political and social upheaval. Their personal battles are intensified by the trials of their times: the onset of World War I, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, the Iron Curtain, the Cold War, the urban warfare in America's inner cities, 9/11. Despite their often dire circumstances, Harleman's characters manage to find moments of light and grace.

Contents:

Meanwhile

Stalin dreaming

Sharks

The angel of entropy

The ones without visas

Street of swans

Iggy ugly

Biscuit baby

Thoreau's laundry

Romantic fever

Autumn, 1911

Will build to suit.

ISBN:

9780870745133

0870745131

OCLC:

79256857