Little Sinners, and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780803243422 | 0803243421
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
Pub. Date: 9/1/2012
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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Karen Brown's Little Sinners, and Other Storiesfeatures a sad, strange mosaic of women and men grappling with the loss and pain of everyday existence, people inhabiting a suburban landscape haunted by ghosts: a mother who leaps from a ridge, a mistress found at the bottom of the Connecticut River, a father who dresses in a pale blue custom suitand disappears. The dead leave behind postcards, houses, bottles of sherry, bones. They become local legends, their stories part of the characters' ow... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Little Sinners | p. 1 |
| Swimming | p. 17 |
| Stillborn | p. 29 |
| Homing | p. 51 |
| The Philter | p. 69 |
| An Heiress Walks Into a Bar | p. 87 |
| The Fountain | p. 109 |
| Passing | p. 129 |
| Leaf House | p. 141 |
| Mistresses | p. 163 |
| Housewifery | p. 185 |
| Table ... MORE |
Karen Brown's first collection of short stories, Pins and Needles, won the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, and her stories have been included in The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 and The Best American Short Stories 2008.
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