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Genre/Form: | Psychological fiction Street lit Short stories Fiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Allen, Jeffery Renard, 1962- Holding pattern. St. Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, ©2008 (OCoLC)680632169 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeffery Renard Allen |
ISBN: | 9781555975098 1555975097 |
OCLC Number: | 213300753 |
Notes: | Short stories. |
Awards: | Commended for Society of Midland Authors Award (Adult Fiction) 2009 Commended for Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Fiction) 2009 |
Description: | 227 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Bread and the land -- Dog tags -- Toilet training -- Same -- Holding pattern -- Shimmy -- The near remote -- The green apocalypse -- Mississippi story -- It shall be again. |
Responsibility: | Jeffery Renard Allen. |
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Abstract:
Allen melds gritty urban life and magical realism in his first collection (after the novel Rails Under My Back). At times, the combination works-in the title story, full of contemporary slang, a character grows wings, but instead of ethereal white feathers, they are dried up and brown and crusty, like some fried chicken wings.
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