The tiki king : stories /
A Lebanese housewife, a former horror-film maker, and a cantankerous Russian librarian are among the inhabitants of the offbeat world found in this impressive debut collection. Stacy Tintocalis's stories take us from a defunct women's shelter off a Missouri country road to the streets of l...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Athens, OH :
Swallow Press,
2010
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| Series: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | A Lebanese housewife, a former horror-film maker, and a cantankerous Russian librarian are among the inhabitants of the offbeat world found in this impressive debut collection. Stacy Tintocalis's stories take us from a defunct women's shelter off a Missouri country road to the streets of low-income Hollywood, where her characters yearn for the love that is always just out of reach. The title story explores the conflicted emotions an adolescent boy feels toward a father who obsessively returns to his childhood home. In "Too Bad about Howie," a divorced poet finds comfort in stolen moments wi. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (166 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780804040426 0804040427 0804011265 9780804011266 0804011273 9780804011273 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
