Screen LibraryHolding pattern : stories /
Allen melds gritty urban life and magical realism in his first collection (after the novel Rails Under My Back). At times, the combination works-in the title story, full of contemporary slang, a character grows wings, but instead of ethereal white feathers, they are dried up and brown and crusty, li...
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Allen melds gritty urban life and magical realism in his first collection (after the novel Rails Under My Back). At times, the combination works-in the title story, full of contemporary slang, a character grows wings, but instead of ethereal white feathers, they are dried up and brown and crusty, like some fried chicken wings. |
| Item Description: | Short stories. |
| Carrier Form: | 227 p. ; 23 cm. |
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9781555975098 (pbk.) : 1555975097 |
| Index Number: | PS3551 |
| CLC: | I712.45 |
| Call Number: | I712.45/A427 |
| Contents: | Bread and the land -- Dog tags -- Toilet training -- Same -- Holding pattern -- Shimmy -- The near remote -- The green apocalypse -- Mississippi story -- It shall be again. |