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03598aam a22004818i 4500 001 0AE5BF28860A11E6BCFA1F96DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20240315010227 008 160414s2016 iau s000 1 eng 010 $a 2016007493 020 $a 1609384512 020 $a 9781609384517 (paperback) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 084 $a FIC029000 $2 bisacsh 050 00 $a PS3615.L423 $b A6 2016 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Oldshue, Robert, $e author. 240 10 $a Short stories. $k Selections 245 10 $a November storm / $c Robert Oldshue. 263 $a 1610 264 1 $a Iowa City : $b University Of Iowa Press, $c 2016. 300 $a pages cm. 490 0 $a Iowa Short Fiction Award 520 $a "In each of the stories in Robert Oldshue's debut collection, the characters want to be decent but find that hard to define. In the first story, an elderly couple is told that delivery of their Thanksgiving dinner has been canceled due to an impending blizzard. Unwilling to have guests but nothing to serve them, they make a run to the grocery, hoping to get there and back before the snow, but crash their car into the last of their neighbors. In "The Receiving Line," a male prostitute tricks a closeted suburban schoolteacher only to learn that the trick is on him. "The Field Of Machpelah" features a twenty-something, premed dropout who is guarding a cemetery when a man asks to see his wife's prepaid plot before the hospital disconnects her life support. In "Home Depot," a family uses their foul-mouthed love to survive the birth of a malformed child. A psychiatrist confronts his fear of the past to help a patient in the present in "Mass Mental." In "The Woman On The Road," a twelve-year-old girl negotiates the competing demands of her faith and her family as she is bat mitzvahed in the feminist ferment of the 1980s. The lessons she learns are the lessons learned by a ten-year-old boy in "Fergus B. Fergus," after which, in "Summer Friend," two women and one man renegotiate their sixty-year intimacy when sadly, but inevitably, one of them gets ill. "The Home Of The Holy Assumption" offers a benediction. A quadriplegic goes missing at a nursing home. Was she assumed? In the process of finding out, all are reminded that caring for others, however imperfectly--even laughably--is the only shot at assumption we have. In upstate New York, a November storm is one that comes early in the season. If it catches people off-guard, it can change them in the ways Oldshue's characters are changed by different but equally surprising storms"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a November Storm -- The Receiving Line -- The Field Of Machpelah -- Home Depot -- Mass Mental -- The Woman On The Road -- Fergus B. Fergus -- Summer Friend -- The Home Of The Holy Assumption/. 650 0 $a Life change events $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Change (Psychology) $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Psychological fiction. 650 7 $a FICTION / Short Stories (single author). $2 bisacsh 941 $a 11 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417015710.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012020606.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110070517.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006101730.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180102032052.0 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20171219020202.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20170802012713.0 952 $l YDPC572 $d 20170624010441.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20170616013827.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418120349.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170405035136.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0AE5BF28860A11E6BCFA1F96DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search