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The Tao of humiliation / stories by Lee Upton.
Van Pelt Library PS3571.P46 A6 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Upton, Lee, 1953- author.
- Series:
- American reader series ; v. 22.
- American reader series
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American.
- Genre:
- Short stories, American.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 231 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, NY : BOA Edititons, Ltd., 2014.
- Summary:
- "Alternately chilling, funny, devastating, and hopeful, these 17 stories introduce us to a theater critic who winds up in a hot tub with the actress he routinely savages in reviews; a biographer who struggles to discover why a novelist stopped writing; a student who contends with her predatory professor; and the startling scenario of the last satyr meeting his last woman."--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- The ideal reader
- The tao of humiliation
- Touch us
- My temple
- Beyond The yellow wallpaper
- What doesn't kill you makes me stronger
- Let go
- The live one
- You know you've made it when they hate you
- Will anyone ever know me
- The swan princess
- La belle dame sans professeur
- The floating woman
- The bottled mermaid
- The last satyr
- Bashful
- The undressed mirror.
- ISBN:
- 9781938160325
- 1938160320
- OCLC:
- 864366356
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