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These people are us / stories by George Singleton.
LIBRA PS3569.I5747 T48 2002 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Singleton, George, 1958-
- Series:
- Harvest book
- A Harvest book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs.
- South Carolina--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- South Carolina.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Harvest edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego : Harcourt, 2002.
- Summary:
- A collection of stories by the author of The Half-Mammals of Dixie seeks to bring out the eccentricities of everyday life with such tales as a man's search for a black-market sonogram to replace a taped-over real one and a town's attempt to fake being hit by a tornado.
- Contents:
- Remember why we're here
- Outlaw head and tail
- How I met my second wife
- Directions for seeing, directions for singing
- These people are us
- Normal
- Dialectic, abrasions, the backs of heads again
- Cleft for me
- Caulk
- Rentals
- Santayana speaks through me
- I could've told you if you hadn't asked
- The ruptures and limits of absence
- Crawl space.
- ISBN:
- 015601274X
- 9780156012744
- OCLC:
- 49226299
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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