| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 126 pages) |
| Series |
Break away books |
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Break away books.
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| Contents |
Other mothers -- Costume -- Center -- Caroline -- Audra -- Details -- When Maggie thinks of Matt -- Jill, or The big little lady -- Dora -- Winona -- Book club guide |
| Summary |
"Unsettling and perceptive, these short stories challenge American girlhood in all its delusions, conflicting messages, and treacherous terrain. Wide- and wise-eyed, mysterious girls leave their realities behind for strange and slightly unreal places at the edges of the country. Alternatively they hover over their Midwestern homes in interior worlds of their own creation. The stories in Elegies for Uncanny Girls stand at a boundary where both the girls bodies and their tales are either their own or laid claim to by the culture and characters that surround them. A young woman whose body continually shrinks and expands moves to Los Angeles to make a movie about tragic merpeople; bewildered and seeking guidance, a new mom strikes up a conversation with a woman with detachable hands; and spurred on by a new ally who might just be a figment of her imagination, a girl decides she can choose her own friends. Colville's stories may be elegies, but her characters remain wondrously alive."--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Includes book club guide |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed August 2, 2017) |
| Subject |
Girls -- Fiction
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Young women -- Fiction
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FICTION -- General.
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FICTION -- Science Fiction -- General.
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Girls
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Young women
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| Genre/Form |
short stories.
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Fiction
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Short stories
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Short stories.
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Short stories.
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Nouvelles.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780253024367 |
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0253024366 |
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