The Evening News

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The Evening News Winner of THE F L A N N E R Y O'CONNOR AWARD FOR SHORT FICTION The Evening News Stories by Tony Ardizzone The University of Georgia Press Athens and London Paperback edition published in 2013 by The University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www.ugapress.org© 1986 by Tony Ardizzone All rights reserved Set in Linotron 202 Times Roman Printed digitally in the United States of America The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition of this book as follows: Ardizzone, Tony. The evening news : stories / by Tony Ardizzone. 161 p.; 23 cm. I. Title. 1986 813'.54 ISBN 0-8203-0860-9 (alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4461-4 ISBN-10: 0-8203-4461-3 ISBN for digital edition: 978-0-8203-4570-3 86-1403 Paperback PS3551.R395E9 FOR DIANE KONDRAT This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments The author and the publisher gratefully acknowledge the magazines in which stories in this volume first appeared. Beloit Fiction Journal: "The Eyes of Children" Black Warrior Review: "My Mother's Stories" and "My Father's Laugh" (under the title "But You Can Call Me Thaddeus") Carolina Quarterly: "Idling" Epoch: "The Evening News" and "Nonna" Memphis State Review: "World Without End" The Minnesota Review: "The Intersection" Quartet: "The Walk-On" Seattle Review: "The Transplant" The Texas Quarterly: "The Daughter and theTradesman" The author also wishes to thank the Old Dominion University Research Foundation for a summer fellowship that enabled him to complete work on this book. This page intentionally left blank ...