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001 2014025375
003 DLC
005 20150815081254.0
008 140825t20152014nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2014025375
020 $a9781934137864 (pbk.)
020 $z9781934137871 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPS3553.O362$bA6 2015
082 00 $a813/.54$223
084 $aFIC019000$aFIC029000$aFIC045000$aFAM004000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aCoffey, Michael,$d1954-$eauthor.
240 10 $aShort stories.$kSelections
245 14 $aThe business of naming things /$cMichael Coffey.
250 $aFirst Edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bBellevue Literary Press,$c2015.
264 4 $c©2014
300 $a207 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $a"First published: 2014."--Title page verso.
505 0 $aMoon over Quabbin -- The business of naming things -- Sunlight -- I thought you were Dale -- Inn of the nations -- The Newman oys -- Sons -- Finishing Ulysses
520 $a""Riveting. vibrant and unsparing." -Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review) "Once I started reading these stories, I couldn't stop. They absorbed me thoroughly, with their taut narratives and evocative language-the language of a poet." -JAY PARINI, author of Jesus: The Human Face of God and The Last Station "Sherwood Anderson would recognize this world of lonely, longing characters, whose surface lives Coffey tenderly plumbs. These beautiful stories-spare, rich, wise and compelling-go to the heart." -FREDERIC TUTEN, author of Self Portraits: Fictions and Tintin in the New World "Whether [Coffey is] writing about a sinning priest or a man who's made a career out of branding or about himself, we can smell Coffey's protagonists and feel their breath on our cheek. Like Chekhov, he must be a notebook writer; how else to explain the strange quirks and the perfect but unaccountable details that animate these intimate portraits?" -EDMUND WHITE, author of Inside a Pearl and A Boy's Own Story Among these eight stories, a fan of writer (and fellow adoptee) Harold Brodkey gains an audience with him at his life's end; two pals take a Joycean sojourn; a man in the business of naming things meets a woman who may not be what she seems; a father discovers his son is suspected in an assassination attempt on the President. In each tale, Coffey's exquisite attention to character and nuance underlies the brutally honest perspectives of his disenchanted fathers, damaged sons, and orphans left feeling perpetually disconnected. Michael Coffey is the author of three books of poems and 27 Men Out, a book about baseball's perfect games. He also co-edited The Irish in America, a book about Irish immigration to America, which was a companion volume to a PBS documentary series. He divides his time between Manhattan and Bolton Landing, New York. The Business of Naming Things is his first work of fiction. "--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Among these eight stories, a fan of writer (and fellow adoptee) Harold Brodkey gains an audience with him at his life's end; two pals take a Joycean sojourn; a man in the business of naming things meets a woman who may not be what she seems; a father discovers his son is suspected in an assassination attempt on the President. In each tale, Coffey's exquisite attention to character and nuance underlies the brutally honest perspectives of his disenchanted fathers, damaged sons, and orphans left feeling perpetually disconnected"--$cProvided by publisher.
655 0 $aPsychological fiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Short Stories (single author).$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Family Life.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering.$2bisacsh