Final vinyl days and other stories
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Published
Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
1565122046, 9781565122048
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 19 cm
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Middletown - Adult Fiction | MCCORKLE | On Shelf |
Newport - Adult Fiction | F McCorkle | On Shelf |
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Providence Public - Level G Fiction | Fic McCorkle | On Shelf |
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Published
Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
1565122046, 9781565122048
Notes
Description
Witty stories set in the South. The story, It's a Funeral! RSVP, is a kind of do-it-yourself funeral service for those about to die, while in Your Husband Is Cheating on Us, a mistress proposes joining forces with the wife against a second mistress. Another extraordinary collection of short stories by the author of "Carolina Moon" and "Crash Diet". "(McCorkle's) characters ... ring as true as lead crystal".--"The Commercial Appeal" (Memphis). Available. When Jill McCorkle feels a short story coming on, she goes right ahead and "wastes" wonderful ideas instead of hoarding them for a novel. The result is another extraordinary collection of stories and characters. In "It's a Funeral! RSVP," the storyteller is a woman who takes up self-styled "careers" that suit her circumstances. Now she's stumbled onto one that's so successful that she just can't quit. It's planning funerals, what she calls Going Out Parties, in which the clients are the soon-to-be-deceased themselves. In "Life Prerecorded," perhaps McCorkle's finest short piece to date, the pregnant narrator finds the real meaning of new life by visiting with a very old neighbor who's waiting, too, for his own new life. In these and the rest of the nine stories, Jill McCorkle acts on her penchant for taming the outrageous, humanizing the forbidden, and grounding the hilarious.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
McCorkle, J. (1998). Final vinyl days and other stories (First edition.). Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McCorkle, Jill, 1958-. 1998. Final Vinyl Days and Other Stories. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McCorkle, Jill, 1958-. Final Vinyl Days and Other Stories Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)McCorkle, Jill. Final Vinyl Days and Other Stories First edition., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998.
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