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100 1 $aHollingshead, Greg,$d1947-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82147614
245 14 $aThe roaring girl :$bstories /$cGreg Hollingshead.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bG.P. Putnam's Sons,$c1997.
300 $a196 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"Originally published [in 1995] by Somerville House Publishing, Toronto, Canada"--T.p. verso.
505 00 $tThe Side of the Elements --$tThe People of the Sudan --$tRose Cottage --$tThe Roaring Girl --$tThe Age of Reason --$tRat with Tangerine --$tA Night at the Palace --$tThe Appraisal --$tThe Death of Brule --$tThe Naked Man --$tHow Happy They Were --$tWalking on the Moon.
520 $aIn the title story, an eight-year-old boy's life is transformed when his parents take in an adolescent drifter. She stays in the basement and works at his father's service station, and she is as tough and unreachable as the boy is sensitive and vulnerable. She curses, she lies, she fixes cars, and she eventually steals from the cash register and runs off with the middle-aged alcoholic mechanic. To the boy, though, she is mysterious and beautiful, straddling the grown-up world and his own.
520 8 $aHer presence inspires in him a constant longing that he can't articulate but that Hollingshead describes with unaffected sympathy. In other stories, a teenager glimpses, inexplicably, a naked man in his parents' house; a young writer attempts to confront an abusive nurse as he wrestles with his (drug-induced and natural) indecisiveness; a housewife is denounced for giving away a box of mysterious medical supplies intended for the Sudan and tries desperately to get it back.
520 8 $aHollingshead's tales are populated by genuine, sincere people who feel out of step in their worlds, who struggle to maintain order, to connect with their families and peers, whose interactions are startling and comical, moving and pathetic.
655 7 $aShort stories.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026542
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR9199.3.H549$iR6 1997