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Safe as houses / Marie-Helene Bertino.
Author
Bertino, Marie-Helene
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2012.
Description
126 pages ; 24 cm.
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PS3602.E7683 S25 2012
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Short stories, American
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Short stories
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short stories
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Series
Iowa short fiction award
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Summary note
The titular story revolves around an aging English professor who, mourning the loss of his wife, robs other people's homes of their sentimental knick-knacks. In "Free Ham," a young dropout wins a ham after her house burns down and refuses to accept it. "Has my ham done anything wrong?" she asks when the grocery store manager demands that she claim it. In "Carry Me Home, Sisters of Saint Joseph," a failed commercial writer moves into the basement of a convent and inadvertently discovers the secrets of the Sisters of Saint Joseph. A girl, hoping to talk her brother out of enlisting in the army, brings Bob Dylan home for Thanksgiving dinner in the quiet, dreamy "North Of." In "The Idea of Marcel," Emily, a conservative, elegant girl, has dinner with the idea of her ex-boyfriend, Marcel. In a night filled with baffling coincidences, including Marcel having dinner with his idea of Emily, she wonders why we tend to be more in love with ideas than with reality. In and out of the rooms of these gritty, whimsical stories roam troubled, funny people struggling to reconcile their circumstances to some kind of American Ideal and failing, over and over.
Contents
Free ham
Sometimes you break their hearts, sometimes they break yours
The idea of marcel
North of
This is your will to live
Great, wondrous
Safe as houses
Carry me home, sisters of Saint Joseph.
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ISBN
9781609381141 ((paperback ; : acid-free paper))
1609381149 ((paperback ; : acid-free paper))
LCCN
2012005969
OCLC
778827851
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