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Black glass : short fictions / Karen Joy Fowler.

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Record Number 738647
ISBN 9780399175794 (hardback)
Author Fowler, Karen Joy author.
Title Black glass : short fictions / Karen Joy Fowler.
Publisher/Date New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2015]
©1998
Pagination etc. xvi, 286 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents note "A Marian Wood book."--Title page.
First published: 1998.
Black glass -- Contention -- Shimabara -- The Elizabeth complex -- Go back -- The travails -- Lieserl -- Letters from home -- Duplicity -- The faithful companion at forty -- The brew -- Lily red -- The black fairy's curse -- The view from Venus -- Game night at the Fox and Goose.
Summary Note Fifteen short stories rife with irony, historical overtones, and a feeling for the picaresque include accounts of Carry Nation's fight against topless bars and Tonto's fortieth birthday, which passes without well wishes from the Lone Ranger.
Subject Short stories
Irony -- Fiction
History -- Fiction
Picaresque literature.
Shelf Location F FOWL
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