Funny once : stories
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New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2014.
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9781596915763, 1596915765, 1620408619, 9781620408612
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Batavia Public Library District - Adult Fiction | FIC Nelson, Antonya | On Shelf |
Blue Island Public Library - Stacks | FIC NEL | On Shelf |
Frankfort Public Library District - Stacks | FICTION NELSON, A. | On Shelf |
Woodridge Public Library - Adult Fiction | FICTION Nelson | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2014.
Format
Book
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291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781596915763, 1596915765, 1620408619, 9781620408612
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"Michael Chabon once said, "I scan the tables of contents of magazines, looking for Antonya Nelson's name, hoping that she has decided to bless us again." And now she has blessed us again, with a bounty of the stories for which she is so beloved. Her stories are clear-eyed, hard-edged, beautifully formed. In the title story, "Funny Once," a couple held together by bad behavior fall into a lie with their more responsible friends. In "The Village," a woman visits her father at a nursing home, recalling his equanimity at her teenage misdeeds and gaining a new understanding of his own past indiscretions. In another, when a troubled girl in the neighborhood goes missing, a mother worries increasingly about her teenage son's relationship with a bad-news girlfriend. In the novella "Three Wishes," siblings muddle through in the aftermath of their elder brother's too-early departure from the world. The landscape of this book is the wide open spaces of Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. Throughout, there is the pervasive desire to drink to forget, to have sex with the wrong people, to hit the road and figure out later where to stop for the night. These characters are aging, regretting actions both taken and not, inhabiting their extended adolescences as best they can. And in Funny Once, their flawed humanity is made beautiful, perfectly observed by one of America's best short story writers"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Nelson, A. (2014). Funny once: stories (First U.S. Edition.). Bloomsbury USA.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Nelson, Antonya. 2014. Funny Once: Stories. Bloomsbury USA.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Nelson, Antonya. Funny Once: Stories Bloomsbury USA, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Nelson, Antonya. Funny Once: Stories First U.S. Edition., Bloomsbury USA, 2014.
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