Isbn: 9780803215405 - last call: stories (prairie schooner book prize in fiction) (10 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. University of Nebraska Press [2004]. First Edition. First Printing. Hardbound. AS NEW in an as-new dust jacket. A pristine, unread copy. Comes with protective mylar cover. The author's first book, a collection of stories. Last Call was the inaugural winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. Stories in the collection were originally published in Threepenny Review, American Short Fiction, Shenandoah, and Post Road. Two of the stories won the Grand Prize in the 2002 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Arts Series. Set mostly in Texas and the American Southwest, the stories sympathetically depict the blue-collar lives of oil riggers, railroad and steel construction workers, x-ray technicians, waitresses, and a con man who tries to buy Costa Rica and examine themes of multi-generational family dynamics, adolescence, and the tension between work and personal relationships. 4600. …

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Gebunden. Zustand: New. A collection of linked stories that spans three generations in the life of one West Texas family.&Uumlber den AutorK. L. Cook is the author of two other award-winning books of fiction, The Girl from Charnelle and Love S.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - K. L. Cook's debut collection of linked stories spans three generations in the life of one West Texas family. Events both tender and tragic lead to a strange and lovely vision of a world stitched together in tenuous ways as the characters struggle to make sense of their lives amid the shifting boundaries of marriage, family, class, and culture. A series of unusual incidents-a daughter's elopement, a sobering holiday trip, a vicious attack by the family dog, a lightning strike-provokes a mother of five to abandon her children. An oil rigger, inspired by sun-induced hallucinations, rescues his estranged wife, who doesn't appreciate his chivalry. In the wake of his father's and brother's deaths, a teenage boy finds a precarious solace working with his mother at a country-western bar. A cosmetics salesman schemes to buy Costa Rica and flirts dangerously with mobsters in Las Vegas. A woman fleeing her fourth marriage arrives at a complicated understanding of love and responsibility. Railroad worker and conman, grieving son and battered wife-these characters explore the limits of family fragility and resilience. Their stories-suggesting unlikely connections between comedy and pathos, cruelty and generosity-promise a hard-won dignity and hope.…