Little sinners, and other stories / Karen Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Karen, 1960-

Series:

Prairie schooner book prize in fiction.

Prairie schooner book prize in fiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pain--Fiction.

Pain.

Emotions--Fiction.

Emotions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Karen Brown's Little Sinners, and Other Stories features a sad, strange mosaic of women and men grappling with the loss and pain of everyday existence, people inhabiting a suburban landscape haunted by ghosts: a mother who leaps from a ridge, a mistress found at the bottom of the Connecticut River, a father who dresses in a pale blue-custom suit-and disappears. The dead leave behind postcards, houses, bottles of sherry, bones. They become local legends, their stories part of the characters' own: an expectant mother in an isolated

Contents:

Little sinners

Swimming

Stillborn

Homing

The philter

An heiress walks into a bar

The fountain

Passing

Leaf house

Mistresses

Housewifery.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-282-23398-X

9786613811721

0-8032-4468-1

OCLC:

804665246