First, body
stories
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Author
Publication
1997 - Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
41,250 words, Guess
Page Count
165 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL994524M
- ISBN-10039578588X
- OCLC Control Number35138620
- OCLC Control Numberfirstbodystories00thon
- Library of Congress Control Number96033088
and 2 more
- LibraryThing5283
- Goodreads3633099
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3570.H6474 F57 1997
Description
A distinctive voice marks Melanie Rae Thon's fiction. The nine stories in this new collection are peopled by characters who live on the margins, in landscapes both urban and rural. In the heartbreakingly comic title story, a 326-pound woman in a Seattle morgue pins a Vietnam vet to the floor. In "Necessary Angels," a young girl in Florida reveals the secret dangers of her privileged life: alligators and furious ducks, a crippled grandfather, a burning car. Taking us from the cobblestone streets of Boston to a deserted Montana road, Thon's stories set us in the borderlands, in the places where sudden accidents and misguided passions make it impossible to return to the safe territory of a former life.
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Other Editions
- First, body: stories
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