One person away from you : stories / Andrew Bertaina.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Bertaina, Andrew, author.

Contributor:

• John Louis Haney Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Short stories, American--21st century.
• Short stories, American.

Genre:

• Short stories.
• Short stories, American.

Physical Description:

237 pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Springfield, Missouri : Moon City Press, [2021]

Summary:

One Person Away From You is a collection of stories that oscillates between the fantastic and the familiar. For every woman who turns into a swan, there's a man who bungles a romantic relationship in Italy; for every sky that rains a torrent of laughter, there's a husband reminiscing about his honeymoon. Above all, the stories explore our common lot of lostness and longing, our question of whether our life and loves are the right ones or the product of some cosmic error. Whether it's a sea appearing suddenly or a bone-dry valley, an angel musing on his relationship with a mortal woman, or a narrator yearning for an absent lover, the deeply emotional stories search for meaning. Throughout this collection, characters and entire towns search through the constructs of identity, time, fairy tales, and love letters to find the flicker of constancy in the sea of change that is human life--back cover.

Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Everyone in This Story
• Something Miraculous
• Courtesy of Cosmopolitan: 24 Big Bang Sex Tips
• Forty Days
• The Arrival of the Sea
• What I'd Forgive
• It Sings
• Migrations
• One Person Away From You
• River Walk
• The Earth in Its Flight
• A Preface to the Third Edition
• Across Town
• In the Garden
• Waking Dreams
• That Summer
• When We Lived by the Sea
• The Nature of Time
• A Woman's Life: An Abridged Version
• A Retraction
• Winter in the City
• The Language of God
• Mother's Garden
• A Subtle Prison
• The Space Between Us
• Being and Time
• Of Lakes and Swans
• It Rained Laughter
• Maybe This Time
• Come Winter
• The Note
• Dream Mother
• Things She's Tired of Hearing
• A Translator's Note: The Definitive Edition.

Notes:

2020 Moon City Short Fiction Award

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Louis Haney Fund.

ISBN:

• 9780913785867
• 0913785865

OCLC:

1268137600

Publisher Number:

99989456317

Online:

The John Louis Haney Fund Home Page