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Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine : stories / Diane Williams.

By: Publisher: San Francisco : Mcsweeney's, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 131 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1940450845
  • 9781940450841
Subject(s):
Contents:
Beauty, love and vanity itself -- A gray pottery head -- Cinch -- Gulls -- To revive a person is no slight thing -- Head of a naked girl -- Rhapsody breeze -- Lavatory -- People of the week -- The romantic life -- Great passion and its context -- Specialist -- The poet -- At a period of exceptional dullness -- Head of the big man -- Living deluxe -- Personal details -- Flying things -- How blown up -- Sigh -- There is always a hesitation before turning in a finished job -- The mermaid pose -- Greed -- Clarinda -- Skol -- The thickening wish -- Lamb chops, cod -- Of the true and final good -- Glimpses of Mrs. Williams -- Girl with a pencil -- Perform small tasks -- With red chair -- Try -- Removal men -- Mere flask poured out -- Bang bang on the stair -- Little bottle of tears -- When I was old and ugly -- Palm against palm -- Human comb.
Summary: "The very short stories of Diane Williams have been aptly called 'folk tales that hammer like a nail gun,' and these forty new ones are sharper than ever. They are unsettling, yes, frequently revelatory, and more often than not downright funny."--Publisher website.
List(s) this item appears in: Short Stories & Novellas
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Book NMC Library Stacks PS3573 .I44846 F56 2016 1 Item is in display case (ask at desk to check out) 33039001458925

Beauty, love and vanity itself -- A gray pottery head -- Cinch -- Gulls -- To revive a person is no slight thing -- Head of a naked girl -- Rhapsody breeze -- Lavatory -- People of the week -- The romantic life -- Great passion and its context -- Specialist -- The poet -- At a period of exceptional dullness -- Head of the big man -- Living deluxe -- Personal details -- Flying things -- How blown up -- Sigh -- There is always a hesitation before turning in a finished job -- The mermaid pose -- Greed -- Clarinda -- Skol -- The thickening wish -- Lamb chops, cod -- Of the true and final good -- Glimpses of Mrs. Williams -- Girl with a pencil -- Perform small tasks -- With red chair -- Try -- Removal men -- Mere flask poured out -- Bang bang on the stair -- Little bottle of tears -- When I was old and ugly -- Palm against palm -- Human comb.