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Bright shards of someplace else : stories / by Monica McFawn.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short FictionPublisher: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (viii, 164 pages .)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780820347769
  • 0820347760
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3613.C4397 B75 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Out of the mouths of babes -- Dead horse productions -- Key phrases -- Elegantly, in the least number of steps -- A country woman -- Line of questioning -- Improvisation -- The slide turned on end -- Ornament and crime -- Snippet and the rainbow bridge -- The Chautauqua sessions.
Summary: In the eleven kaleidoscopic stories that make up Bright Shards of Someplace Else, Monica McFawn traces the combustive, hilarious, and profound effects that occur when people misread the minds of others. The characters-an array of artists, scientists, songwriters, nannies, horse trainers, and poets-often try to pin down another's point of view, only to find that their own worldview is far from fixed. The characters in McFawn's stories long for and fear the encroachment of others. A young boy reduces his nanny's phone bill with a call, then convinces her he can solve her other problems. A man w.
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Out of the mouths of babes -- Dead horse productions -- Key phrases -- Elegantly, in the least number of steps -- A country woman -- Line of questioning -- Improvisation -- The slide turned on end -- Ornament and crime -- Snippet and the rainbow bridge -- The Chautauqua sessions.

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In the eleven kaleidoscopic stories that make up Bright Shards of Someplace Else, Monica McFawn traces the combustive, hilarious, and profound effects that occur when people misread the minds of others. The characters-an array of artists, scientists, songwriters, nannies, horse trainers, and poets-often try to pin down another's point of view, only to find that their own worldview is far from fixed. The characters in McFawn's stories long for and fear the encroachment of others. A young boy reduces his nanny's phone bill with a call, then convinces her he can solve her other problems. A man w.

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