Break Any Woman Down

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break any woman down winner of the flannery o'connor award for short fiction break any woman down stories by dana Johnson the university of georgia press • athens and london Paperback edition published in 2012 by The University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www.ugapress.org© 2001 by Dana Johnson All rights reserved Set in 10 on 14.5 Electra Printed digitally in the United States of America The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition of this book as follows: Johnson, Dana, 1967Break any woman down : stories / by Dana Johnson. 157 p.; 21 cm. "Winner of the Flannery O'Connor award for short fiction." ISBN 0-8203-2315-2 (alk. paper) 1. United States—Social life and customs—20th century— Fiction. I. Title. PS3610.O33B742001 813'.6—dc21 2001027723 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4449-2 ISBN-10: 0-8203-4449-4 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available ISBN for this digital edition: 978-0-8203-4485-0 for Sim Sadler This page intentionally left blank ...