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02838aam a22004218i 4500 001 3125A970F38911E3A92314AFDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20200118010508 008 131219s2014 nyu 000 j eng 010 $a 2013044001 020 $a 9781620408612 (pbk.) 020 $a 1620408619 (pbk.) 020 $a 1596915765 (hardcover) 020 $a 9781596915763 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)866252315 040 $d SILO 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Nelson, Antonya 245 10 $a Funny once : $b stories / $c Antonya Nelson 250 $a First U.S. Edition 263 $a 1405 263 $a 1405 264 1 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury USA, $c 2014 300 $a 291 pages ; $c 22 cm 505 00 $t Three wishes $t Soldier's joy -- $t iff -- $t First husband -- $t The village -- $t Winter in Yalta -- $t The there there -- $t Chapter two -- $t Funny once -- $t Three wishes 520 $a "Michael Chabon once said, "I scan the tables of contents of magazines, looking for Antonya Nelson's name, hoping that she has decided to bless us again." And now she has blessed us again, with a bounty of the stories for which she is so beloved. Her stories are clear-eyed, hard-edged, beautifully formed. In the title story, "Funny Once," a couple held together by bad behavior fall into a lie with their more responsible friends. In "The Village," a woman visits her father at a nursing home, recalling his equanimity at her teenage misdeeds and gaining a new understanding of his own past indiscretions. In another, when a troubled girl in the neighborhood goes missing, a mother worries increasingly about her teenage son's relationship with a bad-news girlfriend. In the novella "Three Wishes," siblings muddle through in the aftermath of their elder brother's too-early departure from the world. The landscape of this book is the wide open spaces of Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. Throughout, there is the pervasive desire to drink to forget, to have sex with the wrong people, to hit the road and figure out later where to stop for the night. These characters are aging, regretting actions both taken and not, inhabiting their extended adolescences as best they can. And in Funny Once, their flawed humanity is made beautiful, perfectly observed by one of America's best short story writers"-- $c Provided by publisher 650 0 $a Short stories 941 $a 9 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305033153.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20240208010032.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722042710.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006080118.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180125063217.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826095524.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20150926030750.0 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20140903013402.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20140717010351.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3125A970F38911E3A92314AFDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search