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Safe as houses / Marie-Helene Bertino.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bertino, Marie-Helene.
- Series:
- Iowa Short Fiction Award
- Iowa short fiction award
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American.
- American fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (143 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Safe as Houses, the debut story collection of Marie-Helene Bertino, proves that not all homes are shelters. The titular story revolves around an aging English professor who, mourning the loss of his wife, robs other people's homes of their sentimental knick-knacks. In ""Free Ham,"" a young dropout wins a ham after her house burns down and refuses to accept it. "Has my ham done anything wrong?" she asks when the grocery store manager demands that she claim it. In ""Carry Me Home, Sisters of Saint Joseph,"" a failed commercial writer moves into the basemen
- Contents:
- Contents; Free Ham; Sometimes You Break Their Hearts, Sometimes They Break Yours; The Idea of Marcel; This Is Your Will to Live; Great, Wondrous; Safe as Houses; Carry Me Home, Sisters of Saint Joseph
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-60938-131-9
- OCLC:
- 821736436
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