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001 2013049085
003 DLC
005 20150205081832.0
008 140114s2014 oru 000 j eng
010 $a 2013049085
020 $a9781891241598 (paperback)
020 $z9781891241956 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPS3612.I675$bC56 2014
082 00 $a813/.6$223
084 $aFIC019000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aLipson, Mimi,$eauthor.
240 10 $aShort stories.$kSelections
245 14 $aThe cloud of unknowing :$bstories /$cby Mimi Lipson.
264 1 $aPortland, OR :$bYETI,$c[2014]
300 $a189 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Funny, tough, and heartbreaking - often all at once - Mimi Lipson's debut collection is a grand tour of bars, diners, bus stations, dog parks, hardcore clubs, vacant lots, and other places that draw people whose inner lives are richer than their wallets. Lipson's alter ego, the sharp-tongued and sharp-eyed Kitty, appears in a variety of guises: as a seven-year-old on a Florida vacation scammed by her roguish father, as a college student who receives a stunningly crucial education outside the classroom, as a passenger whose life changes on a cross-country bus. After meeting her parents, her brother, her friends and coworkers, we are introduced to Isaac, the sui generis man-child who becomes both her lover and her charge, a human roller-coaster who swings her between delight, exasperation, and mortal peril. Like a dinner composed of appetizers, Lipson's book is very nearly a novel, in mosaic form, without all the boring parts. Her wit is as sharp as a serpent's tooth, her sentences as percussively satisfying as billiard balls clicking into the pocket"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aShort stories, American.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh