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Dreadful young ladies and other stories / Kelly Barnhill.
Van Pelt Library PS3602.A777134 A6 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnhill, Kelly Regan, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Magic--Fiction.
- Magic.
- Unrequited love--Fiction.
- Unrequited love.
- Mate selection--Fiction.
- Mate selection.
- Grief--Fiction.
- Grief.
- Short stories.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Local Subjects:
- Mate selection--Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Grief--Fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Unrequited love--Fiction.
- Magic--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 288 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018.
- Summary:
- A short story collection featuring elements of magic realism while touching on the themes of love, knowledge, grief, hope, and jealousy. Teeming with uncanny characters whose lives unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original, these stories demonstrate the strength and power -- known and unknown -- of the imagination.
- Contents:
- Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch
- Open the door and the light pours through
- The dead boy's last poem
- Dreadful young ladies
- The taxidermist's other wife
- Elegy to Gabrielle, patron saint of healers, whores, and righteous thieves
- Notes on the untimely death of Ronia Drake
- The insect and the astronomer: a love story
- The unlicensed magician.
- Contains:
- Barnhill, Kelly Regan. Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Barnhill, Kelly Regan. Dreadful young ladies and other stories.
- ISBN:
- 9781616207977
- 1616207973
- OCLC:
- 993688123
- Publisher Number:
- 99976251308
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