Research Catalog

Title

Babylon and other stories / Alix Ohlin.

Author

Ohlin, Alix.

Publication

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

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• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Description

275 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"In this book Alix Ohlin gives us a collection of stories that demonstrates her range." "In their various locales, from Montreal (where a prosthetic leg casts a furious spell on its beholders) to the Southwest (where a Soviet-era exchange student changes a family's dynamic forever), the characters in Babylon are coming to terms with life's epiphanies, for good or ill. They range from the very young who, confronted with their parents' limitations, discover their own resolve, to those facing middle age and its particular indignities, no less determined to assert themselves and shape their destinies. A tenacious eight-year-old practices piano on paper keys; an expectant mother, settling into an idyllic farmhouse, discovers the tragic story of its previous, rightful inhabitants; and a fictional haunted hospital becomes an obsession for a ghostwriter grappling with her empty nest."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents

The king of Kohlrabi -- Transcription -- Simple exercises for the beginning student -- You am here -- A theory of entropy -- Edgewater -- Wonders never cease -- I love to dance at weddings -- Land of the midnight sun -- Meeting Uncle Bob -- Babylon -- Ghostwriting -- Local news -- The Swanger blood -- In trouble with the Dutchman -- The tennis partner -- An analysis of some troublesome recent behavior.

ISBN

0375415254

LCCN

• 2006040985
• 9780375415258

OCLC

• OCM64336234
• SCSB-5266555

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries