Outside is the ocean / Matthew Lansburgh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lansburgh, Matthew, author.

Series:

Iowa short fiction award

The Iowa Short Fiction Award in honor of James O. Freedman

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

174 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Three days after her twentieth birthday, a young woman who grew up in Germany during World War II, crosses the Atlantic to start a new life. Outside Is the Ocean traces Heike's struggle to find love and happiness in America. After two marriages and a troubled relationship with her son, Heike adopts a disabled child from Russia, a strong-willed girl named Galina, who Heike hopes will give her the affection and companionship she craves. As Galina grows up, Heike's grasp on reality frays, and she writes a series of letters to the son she thinks has abandoned her forever. It isn't until Heike's death that her son finds these letters and realizes how skewed his mother's perceptions actually were"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Queen of Sheba

California

Gunpoint

House made of snow

The lure

Enormous in the moonlight

Outside is the ocean

Potty mouth

Driving north

Iceberg

A kind of happiness

Clear waters below

Amalia

The sky and the night

Buddy.

ISBN:

9781609385279

1609385276

OCLC:

983824486

Publisher Number:

99976968390