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- Thieves I've Known
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of Georgia Press
- Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
summary
In these wondrously strange and revealing stories, Tom Kealey chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the young and marginalized as they discover many ways of growing up.
Their names are Merrill, Omar, Shelby, Laika, Winston, and Toomey, but most people don’t see them. They are boxers in training and the children of fishermen. They are altar boys in a poverty-stricken parish. They are assistant groundskeepers and assistant camel-keepers. They travel with the circus, care for disabled siblings, steal police cars, and retrieve the stolen boots of a priest. Ranging in abode from Puget Sound, Washington, to Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, they are abandoned yet courageous and plucky children and teenagers living on the edges of society.
Thieves I’ve Known is a collection of powerful, moving stories about the lives of a redemptive and peculiar cast of young characters who become easy to know and difficult to forget.
Their names are Merrill, Omar, Shelby, Laika, Winston, and Toomey, but most people don’t see them. They are boxers in training and the children of fishermen. They are altar boys in a poverty-stricken parish. They are assistant groundskeepers and assistant camel-keepers. They travel with the circus, care for disabled siblings, steal police cars, and retrieve the stolen boots of a priest. Ranging in abode from Puget Sound, Washington, to Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, they are abandoned yet courageous and plucky children and teenagers living on the edges of society.
Thieves I’ve Known is a collection of powerful, moving stories about the lives of a redemptive and peculiar cast of young characters who become easy to know and difficult to forget.
Table of Contents
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- INTRODUCTION, OR NOBODY
- pp. 1-9
- FROM BREMERTON
- pp. 10-29
- THE LOST BROTHER
- pp. 30-57
- THIEVES I’VE KNOWN
- pp. 58-79
- CIRCUS NIGHT
- pp. 96-119
- GROUNDSKEEPING
- pp. 120-142
- THE PROBLEM WITH FLIGHT
- pp. 143-171
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. 191-197
Additional Information
ISBN
9780820346366
MARC Record
OCLC
868223110
Pages
208
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-07
Language
English
Open Access
No