Thank you for being concerned and sensitive / Jim Henry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henry, Jim, 1962-

Series:

Iowa short fiction award.

The Iowa short fiction award

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

American fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jim Henry's stories defy convention. There are no easy answers, no quick fixes. Although the plots vary-from a corpse returning to visit his family weeks after his burial, to the musings of a congressman grappling with the weight of history, to a wealthy family's elaborate plot to cheer their mysteriously wounded mother-all express a sense of the extraordinary in the ordinary, the absurd in the everyday.Henry's characters are for the most part misfits, outsiders looking in on a world whose seemingly natural order is turned upside down. In a throw-away culture obsessed wit

Contents:

Contents; Motherhurt; Gladys Knows; The Flood; Congressman Spoonbender; The Earthling!; The Prodigal Corpse; Observer Status; Jesus; The Main Event; The Last of the Plaids; "Yes!" Wins; Mouthfeel

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-58729-107-X

OCLC:

44962628