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Bliss and other short stories / Ted Gilley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gilley, Ted.
- Series:
- Prairie schooner book prize in fiction.
- Prairie schooner book prize in fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Happiness--Fiction.
- Happiness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (137 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, this daring collection of nine stories introduces readers to an edgy vision and a world in which certainties are tested and found wanting. A Cambodian refugee negotiates the icy waters of American social and sexual life. A young couple seeks "peak experiences" to escape grief, only to discover that they've brought it along with them. A teenage girl, unable to face the imminent end of her grandfather's life, risks her own life in an impulsive act. A man's fragile hold on reality becomes the key to his finding, albeit through a terrifying lab
- Contents:
- All hallows' eve
- Bliss
- Vanishing world
- White
- House of prayer
- Physical wisdom
- Mountains of the moon
- Invisible waves
- The end zone.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-05085-4
- 9786613050854
- 0-8032-3356-6
- OCLC:
- 670411373
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