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Happiness [electronic resource]

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In Ann Harleman's remarkable debut collection, men and women of extraordinary passions look for and sometimes find the hidden heart of ordinary life. Testing themselves and each other, they search for ways to connect. ""Understanding,"" says the troubled voyeur-narrator of ""Imaginary Colors,"" ""is the booby prize""; these characters go for experience. Reckless explorers of inner space, they try the limits of their lives.A gravely ill woman seeks forgiveness from her grown-up daughters for an adulterous past which she does not really regret. A boy watches anxiously-and

Title Happiness [electronic resource] / Ann Harleman.
Publisher Iowa City : University of Iowa Press
Creation Date c1994
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
English
Content Contents
In Damascus
Eve and Adam, 1963
Happiness
Urban Fishing
Dancing Fish
Salvage
Someone Else
It Was Humdrum
The White Hope of Cleveland
Imagined Colors
Nothing
The Cost of Anything
Series Iowa Short Fiction Award
Extent 1 online resource (146 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010720253205171
MARC RECORDS

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