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- The Proper Words for Sin
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: West Virginia University Press
summary
Coal burns underground and destroys a small town. A woman confronts police officers with her pet copperheads. A young girl drinks Drano. A man is banned from his favorite bar.
Within these eleven short stories, Flannery O’Connor Award winner and poet Gary Fincke brings into focus the small struggles of ordinary people. The characters within this collection, from boys and girls to fathers, mothers, and the aging, live in cities, in towns, and in rural areas. Yet, no matter the surroundings, all seem alone within a collective anxiety. Set against extraordinary events, such as the Three Mile Island accident, the Challenger Disaster, and the Kennedy assassination, these stories personalize history through a juxtaposition between large and small tragedies and the unflinching desire to find insight within and redemption from weakness and shortcoming.Table of Contents
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- There's Worse
- pp. 1-16
- The Out-of-Sorts
- pp. 17-36
- The Fierceness of Need
- pp. 37-58
- All the Big Things
- pp. 77-93
- Private Things
- pp. 94-117
- The Proper Words for Sin
- pp. 118-139
- You Can Look This Up
- pp. 140-160
- The Blazer Sestina
- pp. 161-179
- The Promises of Labels
- pp. 180-195
- Somebody Somewhere Else
- pp. 196-214
- Back Cover
- p. 226
Additional Information
ISBN
9781935978909
Related ISBN(s)
9781935978886, 9781935978893
MARC Record
OCLC
847616881
Pages
224
Launched on MUSE
2013-05-20
Language
English
Open Access
No