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Verge : stories / Lidia Yuknavitch.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2020Description: 194 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780525534877
  • 0525534873
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The pull -- The organ runner -- Street walker -- The garden of earthly delights -- A woman object (exploding) -- Cosmos -- Second language -- A woman signifying -- The eleventh commandment -- Drive through -- Cusp -- A woman refusing -- Shooting -- A woman apologizing -- Mechanics -- Second coming -- Beatings -- A woman going out -- How to lose an I -- Two girls.
Summary: "A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction.Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer of rare insight into the jagged boundaries between pain and survival. Her characters are scarred by the unchecked hungers of others and themselves, yet determined to find salvation within lives that can feel beyond their control."--Publisher description.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Yuknavit Lidia Available 33111009593043
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An eight-year-old trauma victim is enlisted as an underground courier, rushing frozen organs through the alleys of Eastern Europe. A young janitor transforms discarded objects into a fantastical, sprawling miniature city until a shocking discovery forces him to rethink his creation. A brazen child tells off a pack of schoolyard tormentors with the spirited invention of an eleventh commandment. A wounded man drives eastward, through tears and grief, toward an unexpected transcendence. A book of heroic grace and empathy, Verge is a viscerally powerful and moving survey of our modern heartache life.

The pull -- The organ runner -- Street walker -- The garden of earthly delights -- A woman object (exploding) -- Cosmos -- Second language -- A woman signifying -- The eleventh commandment -- Drive through -- Cusp -- A woman refusing -- Shooting -- A woman apologizing -- Mechanics -- Second coming -- Beatings -- A woman going out -- How to lose an I -- Two girls.

"A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction.Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer of rare insight into the jagged boundaries between pain and survival. Her characters are scarred by the unchecked hungers of others and themselves, yet determined to find salvation within lives that can feel beyond their control."--Publisher description.

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