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- Still Life with Plums: Short Stories
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: West Virginia University Press
summary
Still Life with Plums is a vibrant collection of short stories that weaves together the outwardly distant lives of several strangers. With heaping doses of dark humor and magical realism, these ten stories enliven a cast of characters carefully speckled throughout the southern portion of the United States. From West Virginians, to Texans and Latinos, Still Life with Plums circles the paths of a Black-Irish West Virginian, a wise-cracking dog groomer, an emasculated husband, a Guatemalan widow, a Japanese-Latin-American poster child from WWII, and a meticulous predator. Marie Manilla’s accessible prose is deceptively layered, as she births and wrestles this quirky ensemble that unflinchingly probes the human psyche, while affirming a concrete connection to a shared place and identity.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- p. vii
- Hand. Me. Down.
- pp. 1-18
- Childproof
- pp. 19-31
- Distillation
- pp. 61-77
- Still Life with Plums
- pp. 78-99
- Counting Backwards
- pp. 100-113
- Crystal City
- pp. 114-146
- The Wife You Wanted
- pp. 147-159
- About the Author
- p. 187
Additional Information
ISBN
9781933202617
Related ISBN(s)
9781933202600, 9781943665600
MARC Record
OCLC
794700686
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2010