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An edition of First, body (1997)

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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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Henry Holt
Language
English
Pages
165

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Subjects
Social life and customs, Fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, short stories (single author)
Places
United States
Times
20th century

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2014, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
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First, Body: Stories
2014, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
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First, Body: Stories
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First, body: stories
1998, Henry Holt
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Table of Contents

First, body
Father, lover, deadman, dreamer
Little white sister
Nobody's daughters
The snow thief
Bodies of water
Necessary angels.

Edition Notes

"An Owl book."

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3570.H6474 F57 1998

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Pagination
165 p. ;
Number of pages
165

ID Numbers

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OL695177M
ISBN 10
0805055401
LCCN
97042579
OCLC/WorldCat
38090849
Library Thing
5283
Goodreads
420174

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