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A .38 special and a broken heart : short-short stories
- Title
- A .38 special and a broken heart : short-short stories / by Jonis Agee.
- Author
- Agee, Jonis.
- Publication
- Minneapolis : Coffee House Press ; St. Paul, MN : Distributor, Consortium Books Sales & Distribution, [1995], ©1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3551.G4 A615 1995 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 131 pages; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Honest, biting, and bittersweet, A .38 Special and a Broken Heart is a rich collection of stories by critically acclaimed author Jonis Agee. Packed with emotional detail and compelling narrative force, these stories are about people who love, lose, and try again. Persistence and strength, betrayal and forgiveness, weakness and acceptance, mercy and mystery, life and death - all find themselves played out in this collection.
- Series Statement
- Coffee-to-go short-short stories series
- Uniform Title
- Coffee-to-go short-short story series.
- Alternative Title
- Point thirty-eight special and a broken heart.
- Subject
- Contents
- My Mother's Hands -- There Has to Be a Beginning -- Size -- Politics -- His -- Living in Waste Places -- The Family of Death -- My Last Try -- In the Town of Laura -- The Gun -- The Jesus Barber Shop -- Invisible -- Gardening -- What's It Like in There, They'll Ask -- The Change Jar -- An Arrangement With Gravity -- Kenya -- What It Means -- Cata: Something Early -- Cata: Inheritance -- Cata: The First Hunger -- Cata: On the Road -- Cata: Cata's Alphabet -- From the Texaco Station Behind My House -- Dead Space -- The Specific Dreams of Our Republic -- Walking the Dog -- Why Blame the Women? -- Doors -- The Cruel Gift of Time -- Listen -- Asparagus -- Mustard.
- ISBN
- 1566890322
- LCCN
- 94048076
- OCLC
- 31753877
- ocm31753877
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries