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050 04 $aPS3557.L514$bU84 2010
100 1 $aGlickfeld, Carole L.
245 10 $aUseful gifts :$bstories /$cby Carole L. Glickfeld.
250 $aPbk. ed.
260 $aAthens :$bUniversity of Georgia Press,$c2010, c1989.
300 $a209 p. ;$c22 cm.
490 1 $aWinner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
505 8 $aArden Street -- What My Mother Knows -- In the Shadow of the Boardwalk -- My Second Favorite -- Useful Gifts -- Fort Arden -- Peola and Petunia -- Talking Mama-Losh'n -- Plastic Flowers -- My Father's Darling -- Begin the Beguine -- Retracings -- Relics of Stars
520 $a"These eleven short stories all have Ruth Zimmer as the protagonist, the first ten being episodes of her childhood in Manhattan -- interpreting for her deaf-mute parents whose three children have normal hearing and speech....In the last story Ruth, now living on the West Coast, returns to New York...and discovers that {her father} has been hoarding money by denying his wife and children an easier existence." Antioch Rev.
650 0 $aShort stories, American.
830 0 $aFlannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
852 00 $bglx$hPS3557.L514$iU84 2010