Things kept, things left behind / Jim Tomlinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tomlinson, Jim, 1941-

Series:

Iowa short fiction award.

The Iowa short fiction award

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The stories in Things Kept, Things Left Behind explore the ambiguities of kept secrets, the tangles of abandoned pasts, and uneasy accommodations. Jim Tomlinson's characters each face the desire to reclaim dreams left behind, along with something of the dreamer that was also lost. Starkly rendered, these spiraling characters inhabit a specific place and class---small-town Kentucky, working-class America---but the stories, told in all their humor and tragedy, are universal. In each story the characters face conflict, sometimes within themselves, sometimes with each other. Each carries a past an

Contents:

First husband, first wife

Lake Charles

The accomplished son

Squirrels

Things kept

Paragon tea

Flights

Things left behind

Marathon man

Prologue (two lives in letters)

Stainless.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-58729-768-X

OCLC:

297118104