Research Catalog

Title

Mrs. Somebody Somebody : stories / Tracy Winn.

Author

Winn, Tracy, 1953-

Publication

Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 2009.

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Details

Description

189 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

"By turns funny and sad, the linked stories in Tracy Winn's debut collection, Mrs. Somebody Somebody intersect in surprising ways. Winn draws us into the last sixty years of an old mill town where her unforgettable characters are down on their luck, but making the most of it. The man-crazy young mill worker of the title story forms an unexpected friendship with a lesbian labor organizer; a plucky immigrant child finds faith that her sister will return safely from Iraq; and a secretive old bookie has reason to hide a fragment of bone in his pocket. Connecting them all is the decidedly upper-class Burroughs family whose stately home holds years of unspoken compromise and regret. Winn delivers the truths of our experience, unfolding these all-too-human lives, showing how little race, class and age matter when it comes to the grace that connects us all."--BOOK JACKET.

Note

• "Some of the stories in this collection appeared first in slightly different form in the following publications: 'Another Way to Make Cleopatra Cry' as 'An Everyday,' in Alaska Quarterly Review; 'Copper Leaves Waving,' in The New Orleans Review; 'Glass Box' as 'Glass Box, 1956,' in Alaska Quarterly Review; 'Cantogallo' as 'Izabel Tiago,' in Passages North; and 'Smoke' in Hayden's Ferry Review"--T.p. verso.

Contents

Mrs. Somebody Somebody -- Blue Tango -- Glass Box -- Gumbo Limbo -- Smoke -- Another Way to Make Cleopatra Cry -- Frankie Floats -- Copper Leaves Waving -- Cantogallo -- Luck Be a Lady.

ISBN

• 9780870745546 (alk. paper)
• 0870745549 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008049038
• 40016513527

OCLC

• ocn276274603
• 276274603
• SCSB-5462327

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries