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Irish Girl [electronic resource]

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"It's dark in here, but brilliant. Tim Johnston is as wise as he is original, and his stories are impossible to forget."-David Sedaris Includes stories of loss, absence, and the devastating effects of chance - of what happens when the unthinkable bad luck of other people, of other towns, becomes our bad luck, our town. ""This is white-knuckle prose; it means what it says and it says what it means. Not that I count words, but when an image can be etched in fewer than ten, I sit up and take notice. When an image is limned in fewer than five words, I pretty near shiver. The stories in Irish

Title Irish Girl [electronic resource] / by Tim Johnston.
Publisher Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press
Creation Date c2009
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
English
Content Dirt men -- Water -- Things go missing -- Antlerless hunt -- Jumping man -- Lucky gorseman -- Up there -- Irish girl.
Series Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction series
no. 8
Extent 1 online resource (149 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010715213405171
MARC RECORDS
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