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The bigness of the world : stories

Author: Lori Ostlund
Publisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2009.
Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Set among such divergent places as small-town Minnesota and an Albuquerque airport, a Belizean caf ̌and a hotel swimming pool in Java, Ostlunds Flannery OConnor Awardwinning debut collection depicts sexually and socially repressed Americans. Men and women who wind up feeling displaced when they fail to escape the influence of their past: ineffectual parents, fathers and lovers who disappear, teachers who struggle to  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Short stories
Material Type: Fiction, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Lori Ostlund
ISBN: 9780820334097 082033409X
OCLC Number: 318869603
Awards: Winner of Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction 2008.
Description: x, 214 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: The bigness of the world --
Bed death --
Talking fowl with my father --
The day you were born --
Nobody walks to the Mennonites --
Upon completion of baldness --
And down we went --
Idyllic little Bali --
Dr. Deneau's punishment --
The children beneath the seat --
All boy.
Series Title: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Responsibility: by Lori Ostlund.

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Set among such divergent places as small-town Minnesota and an Albuquerque airport, a Belizean caf ̌and a hotel swimming pool in Java, Ostlunds Flannery OConnor Awardwinning debut collection depicts sexually and socially repressed Americans. Men and women who wind up feeling displaced when they fail to escape the influence of their past: ineffectual parents, fathers and lovers who disappear, teachers who struggle to connect with their students, and lifelong obsessions with language.

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