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Giovanna's 86 Circles: And Other Stories
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Series: Library of American Fiction
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ISBN10: 029921284X
ISBN13: 9780299212841
Publisher: Terrace Books
Published: Apr 22 2013
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780299212841
Publisher: Terrace Books
Published: Apr 22 2013
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
These ten magical stories are primarily set in Pittsburgh-area river towns, where Italian American women and girls draw from their culture and folklore to bring life and a sense of wonder to a seemingly barren region of the Rust Belt. Each story catapults the ordinary into something original and unpredictable.
A skeptical journalist scopes out the bar where the town mayor, in seemingly perfect health, is drinking with his buddies and celebrating what he claims is the last day of his life. A woman donates her dead mother's clothes to a thrift shop but learns that their destiny is not what she expected. A ten-year-old girl wrestles with the facts of life as she watches her neighbor struggle to get pregnant while her teenage sister finds it all too easy. A high school girl hallucinates in a steamy hospital laundry room and discovers she can see her coworkers' futures. A developer's wrecking ball is no match for the legend of Giovanna's green thumb in the title story Giovanna's 86 Circles.
Quirky and profound, Corso's magical leaps uncover the everyday poetry of these women's lives.
Quirky and profound, Corso's magical leaps uncover the everyday poetry of these women's lives.
Finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award
Selected for Best Short Stories of 2005 in Montserrat Review
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