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Black light : stories / Kimberly King Parsons.
Van Pelt Library PS3616.A78267 A6 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parsons, Kimberly King, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Security (Psychology).
- Small cities.
- Small cities--Fiction.
- Security (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Texas--Fiction.
- Texas.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 211 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 2019.
- Summary:
- "With raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire's darkest hollows - those hidden places where most of us are afraid to look. In this debut collection of enormously perceptive and brutally unsentimental short stories, Parsons illuminates the ache of first love, the banality of self-loathing, the scourge of addiction, the myth of marriage, and the magic and inevitable disillusionment of childhood. Taking us from hot Texas highways to cold family kitchens, from the freedom of pay-by-the-hour motels to the claustrophobia of private school dorms, these stories erupt off the page with a primal howl - sharp-voiced, acerbic, and wise"-- Publisher description.
- Contents:
- Guts
- In our circle
- Glow hunter
- The animal part
- Foxes
- The soft no
- We don't come natural to it
- The light will pour in
- Into the fold
- Black light
- Fiddlebacks
- Starlite.
- Notes:
- Longlisted National Book Awards, 2019.
- ISBN:
- 9780525563501
- 0525563504
- OCLC:
- 1109796738
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