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Sorry I worried you [electronic resource] : stories / by Gary Fincke.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short FictionPublication details: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2004.Description: 1 online resource (217 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780820345857 (electronic bk.)
  • 0820345857 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sorry I worried you.DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 22
LOC classification:
  • PS3556.I457 S67 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The lightning tongues -- Sorry I worried you -- Cargo -- The history of staying awake -- Piecework -- The serial plagiarist -- Wire's wire, until it's a body -- Rip his head off -- Book owner -- Pharisees -- The Armstrong view -- Gatsby, Tender, Paradise.
Review: "In these twelve tales, poet and story writer Gary Fincke reconciles lost hope and quiet despair with small blessings and ultimate redemption.".Summary: "In the title story, Ben, a fifty-year-old bookstore clerk facing the possibility of prostate cancer, feels his life spiraling out of control as he endures his female doctor's examinations with childlike embarrassment on the one hand and struggles to conceal his age from his teenybopper coworkers on the other. Ben's only consolation is that "every day he heard about something a hundred times worse." In "Gatsby, Tender, Paradise," Bridgeford encounters a group of lightning strike and electrocution victims and feels lucky to have survived several light-switch shocks - the same type of shocks that have permanently disabled one man in the group."--BOOK JACKET.
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The lightning tongues -- Sorry I worried you -- Cargo -- The history of staying awake -- Piecework -- The serial plagiarist -- Wire's wire, until it's a body -- Rip his head off -- Book owner -- Pharisees -- The Armstrong view -- Gatsby, Tender, Paradise.

"In these twelve tales, poet and story writer Gary Fincke reconciles lost hope and quiet despair with small blessings and ultimate redemption.".

"In the title story, Ben, a fifty-year-old bookstore clerk facing the possibility of prostate cancer, feels his life spiraling out of control as he endures his female doctor's examinations with childlike embarrassment on the one hand and struggles to conceal his age from his teenybopper coworkers on the other. Ben's only consolation is that "every day he heard about something a hundred times worse." In "Gatsby, Tender, Paradise," Bridgeford encounters a group of lightning strike and electrocution victims and feels lucky to have survived several light-switch shocks - the same type of shocks that have permanently disabled one man in the group."--BOOK JACKET.

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