Useful gifts : stories / by Carole L. Glickfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glickfeld, Carole L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Charged with the mystery of childhood, with curiosity and daring, confusion and fear, the eleven interrelated stories in Useful Gifts explore what Ruthie, the youngest child of profoundly deaf parents living in Manhattan in the 1940s and 1950s, makes of the world.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

1. Arden Street

What My Mother Knows

In the Shadow of the Boardwalk

My Second Favorite

Useful Gifts

Fort Arden

Peola and Petunia

Talking Mama-Losh'n

Plastic Flowers

My Father's Darling

Begin the Beguine

2. Retracings

Relics of Stars.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-282-94811-3

9786612948114

0-8203-3761-7

OCLC:

694363683