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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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Houghton Mifflin Co.
Language
English
Pages
165

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

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First, Body
2014, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
in English
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First, Body: Stories
2014, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
in English
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First, Body: Stories
2014, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
in English
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Cover of: First, Body
First, Body: Stories
2014, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
in English
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Cover of: First, body
First, body: stories
1998, Henry Holt
in English - 1st Owl Books ed.
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Cover of: First, body
First, body: stories
1997, Houghton Mifflin Co.
in English
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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.

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Boston

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3570.H6474 F57 1997, PS3570.H6474F57 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
165 p. ;
Number of pages
165

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OL994524M
Internet Archive
firstbodystories00thon
ISBN 10
039578588X
LCCN
96033088
OCLC/WorldCat
35138620
Library Thing
5283
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
3633099

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