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Ate it anyway : stories /
In the limbo bounded by rebellion and resignation, belonging and solitude, Ed Allen's middle Americans seem to be either freely adrift or uncomfortably vested in an exit strategy wholly inadequate for their circumstances. These sixteen darkly humorous stories gauge the tension between what we r...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
©2003.
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| Series: | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | In the limbo bounded by rebellion and resignation, belonging and solitude, Ed Allen's middle Americans seem to be either freely adrift or uncomfortably vested in an exit strategy wholly inadequate for their circumstances. These sixteen darkly humorous stories gauge the tension between what we really feel and what we outwardly express, what we should do and what we manage to get done. In ""Celibacy-by-the-Atlantic, "" Phil negotiates a lingering, low-intensity regret brought on by the annual family get-together at his parents' beach house, where memories of his aimless, privileged adolescence mi |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 182 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780820344812 0820344818 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |