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The secrets of a fire king : stories
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The secrets of a fire king : stories

Author: Kim Edwards
Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2007.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary: Eleven stories set in various parts of the world. In Sky Juice, a girl in Malaysia escapes prostitution by becoming a mail-order bride, The Way It Felt to Be Falling is on a woman sky diver, and in The Story of My Life a woman discovers her anti-abortion mother is no saint herself.
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Genre/Form: Short stories.
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kim Edwards
ISBN: 9780143112303 0143112309
OCLC Number: 137225257
Description: 255 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: The great chain of being -- Spring, mountain, sea -- A gleaming in the darkness -- Balance -- The way it felt to be falling -- The invitation -- Aristotle's Lantern -- The secrets of a fire king -- Thirst -- Sky juice -- Gold -- In the garden -- Rat stories -- The story of my life.
Responsibility: by Kim Edwards.

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Eleven stories set in various parts of the world. In Sky Juice, a girl in Malaysia escapes prostitution by becoming a mail-order bride, The Way It Felt to Be Falling is on a woman sky diver, and in The Story of My Life a woman discovers her anti-abortion mother is no saint herself.

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