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LEADER: 02027cam a2200313 i 4500
001 2013050974
003 DLC
005 20140513080842.0
008 131230s2014 mau 000 1 eng
010 $a 2013050974
020 $a9780544307049 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPR6061.E5952$bA6 2014
082 00 $a823/.914$223
084 $aFIC019000$aFIC029000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aKennedy, A. L.
240 10 $aShort stories.$kSelections
245 10 $aAll the rage :$bstories /$cA. L. Kennedy.
250 $aFirst U.S. edition.
264 1 $aBoston :$bNew Harvest,$c2014.
300 $a215 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"A. L. Kennedy's latest collection of stories is an investigation of "certain types of threat and the odder edges of sweet things"--another intense and luscious feast of language from the author of The Blue Book and Paradise. "I want to describe my genuine circumstances on the occasion in question, but I can't," confesses the narrator of "Baby Blue," who finds herself "somewhere like a very big grocers. a supermarket full of sex." Kennedy hilariously explores the comic possibilities of fake genitalia before landing on a heartbreaking note.In "Takes You Home," a man tries to sell his apartment, the emptiness of the rooms. It's a journey to the interior that is both harrowing and humorous, as he considers the benefit of showing off the old kitchen rather than renovating--it "only quietly asks to be replaced and will shrug when it's knocked to pieces and hauled away and not take it personally one bit." Swarming with memory and moments of grace, All the Rage is Kennedy at her inimitable best"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"A dozen sharp new stories by one of contemporary fiction's acknowledged masters"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Short Stories (single author).$2bisacsh