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The weight of a human heart : stories / Ryan O'Neill.
Van Pelt Library PR6115.N459 W45 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Neill, Ryan, 1975-
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marriage--Fiction.
- Marriage.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 229 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- 'The Weight of a Human Heart' turns the rules of sto rytelling on their head. A series of graphs illustrates the disintegration of a marriage, step by excruciating step. A literary feud, and an affair, play out in the book review section of a national newspaper. A young girl learns her mother's disturbing secrets.
- Contents:
- Collected stories
- The cockroach
- English as a foreign language
- Africa was children crying
- Four letter words
- Seventeen rules for writing a short story
- A speeding bullet
- The Chinese lesson
- A story in writing
- The genocide
- A short story
- A room without books
- Figures in a marriage
- Last words
- The footnote
- The examination
- Understand, understood, understood
- July the firsts
- The saved
- Typography
- The eunuch in the harem.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Australia, Black Inc., 2012.
- ISBN:
- 9781250024992
- 1250024994
- OCLC:
- 811597542
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