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Staten Island stories / Claire Jimenez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jimenez, Claire, author.
- Series:
- Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
- Johns Hopkins : poetry and fiction
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American--21st century.
- Short stories, American.
- Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
- Staten Island (New York, N.Y.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "This collection of tragicomic short stories, whose form is inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, feature various inhabitants of Staten Island, New York City's so-called forgotten borough. The collection travels across time through the voices of working-class folks to explore defining moments in the island's history and in US history"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Tale of the angry adjunct
- What it is
- Great kills
- Eddie and the dying fish
- The knight's tale
- Do now
- Underneath the water you could actually hear bells
- This one kid Douglass got jumped
- You are a strange imitation of a woman
- The grant writer's tale
- Who would break the dark first
- As luck would have it.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-3416-4
- OCLC:
- 1127574595
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