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Author:

Barnhill, Kelly Regan, author.

Title:

Dreadful young ladies and other stories / Kelly Barnhill.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

288 pages : illustration ; 22 cm

Subject:

Magic--Fiction.
Unrequited love--Fiction.
Mate selection--Fiction.
Grief--Fiction.
Short stories.
Fantasy fiction.

Other Authors:

Barnhill, Kelly Regan. Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch.

Other Titles:

Short stories. Selections

Contents:

Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch -- Open the door and the light pours through -- The dead boy's last poem -- Dreadful young ladies -- The taxidermist's other wife -- Elegy to Gabrielle, patron saint of healers, whores, and righteous thieves -- Notes on the untimely death of Ronia Drake -- The insect and the astronomer: a love story -- The unlicensed magician.

Summary:

A short story collection featuring elements of magic realism while touching on the themes of love, knowledge, grief, hope, and jealousy. Teeming with uncanny characters whose lives unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original, these stories demonstrate the strength and power -- known and unknown -- of the imagination.

ISBN:

1616207973
9781616207977

OCLC:

(OCoLC)993688123

LCCN:

2017039839

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

HNPC845 -- Hawarden Public Library (Hawarden)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)

XIPA157 -- Lewis Public Library (Lewis)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

WSPF215 -- Spencer Public Library (Spencer)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)