Shepherd, Jean.
Contents: The grandstand passion play of Delbert and the Bumpus hounds.--County fair!--Scut Farkas and the murderous Mariah.--Ollie Hopnoodle's haven of bliss.--The star-crossed romance of Josephine Cosnowski.--Daphne Bigelow and the spine-chilling saga of the snail-encrusted tinfoil noose.--The return of the smiling Wimpy doll.--Wanda Hickey's night of golden memories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1971
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEMartinez, Juan
Summary: "Praise for Juan Martinez: "A little out of the ordinary.... He takes this very unnatural environment and changes it into a landscape."-Hannah Tinti "I loved it."- Etgar Keret These are the best Americans, the worst Americans. In these stories (these cities, these people) there are labyrinths, rivers, wildernesses. Voices sound slightly different than ex-pected. There's humor, but it's going to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Small Beer Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARThompson, Jean
Summary: Stories featuring unhappy protagonists, many of them lonely. In Heart of Gold, a lonely woman finds solace in the heroes of cowboy movies, while in The Widower, after selling a young couple his house, a lonely man tries to insert himself in their life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999