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Short People

Short People

Furst, Joshua

Paperback

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0375714073
ISBN13: 9780375714078
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Oct 1 2004
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.26 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
James Michener Fellowship winner Joshua Furst's widely acclaimed debut collection explores the perils and paradoxes of childhood in ten harrowing, moving, and surprising stories, offering a rare and unsentimental depiction of the lives of American youth.

In The Age of Exploration, two boys experience the world so differently--Billy through science; Jason with fantastical powers of imagination--that they sense their lives will stray irrevocably away from each other. In Red Lobster, which won the Nelson Algren Award, a gaggle of children try to please the father who has rounded them up from their various homes to take them to a fateful dinner. And in the collection's climactic story, Failure to Thrive, a maternity ward nurse takes compassion too far. Emotionally astute, brilliantly written, these stories mark the arrival of a powerful new voice in American literature.

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