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Valery the great : stories / Elaine McCluskey.
- Title
- Valery the great : stories / Elaine McCluskey.
- Author
- McCluskey, Elaine, 1955-
- Publication
- Vancouver, BC : Anvil Press, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- 186 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "A crackling, electric collection of dark humour that follows the bizarre and beautiful lives of the protagonists. Sometimes sweet and gentle, sometimes sharply sarcastic, the unique narrative voices in this collection are always powerfully touching"--Back cover.
- Subject
- Short stories
- Genre/Form
- short stories.
- Short stories
- Nouvelles.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The favourite nephew -- Maurice -- Little Eric -- Bad boys -- Valery the Great -- I visited the Grand Canyon -- Blossom -- Bittersweet Bratislava -- Hank Williams is coming to save us -- Doll and Snooks -- The Houdini -- Wishing well -- Finbar -- The teddy bears' picnic -- A great nation -- Maury -- Jess love Jorge -- Freud's Rat Man was conflicted -- Johnnycanuck had this to say.
- ISBN
- 1897535899 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 773664431
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library