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050 00 $aPS3615.S64$bB54 2009
082 00 $a813/.6$222
100 1 $aOstlund, Lori.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009025664
245 14 $aThe bigness of the world /$cstories by Lori Ostlund.
260 $aAthens :$bUniversity of Georgia Press,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $ax, 214 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aFlannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
505 00 $tThe Bigness of the World -- $tBed Death -- $tTalking Fowl with My Father -- $tThe Day You Were Born -- $tNobody Walks to the Mennonites -- $tUpon Completion of Baldness -- $tAnd Down We Went -- $tIdyllic Little Bali -- $tDr. Deneau's Punishment -- $tThe Children Beneath the Seat -- $tAll Boy.
520 1 $a"In Lori Ostlund's debut collection people seeking escape from situations at home venture out into a world that they find is just as complicated and troubled as the one they left behind." "In prose highlighted by both satire and poignant observation, Ostlund offers characters that represent a different sort of everyman - men and women who poke fun at ideological rigidity while holding fast to good grammar and manners, people seeking connections in a world that seems increasingly foreign. In "Upon Completion of Baldness" a young woman shaves her head for a part in a movie in Hong Kong that will help her escape life with her lover in Albuquerque. The precocious narrator of "All Boy" finds comfort when he is locked in a closet by a babysitter. In "Dr. Deneau's Punishment" a math teacher leaving New York for Minnesota as a means of punishing himself engages in an unsettling method of discipline. A lesbian couple whose relationship is disintegrating flees to the Moroccan desert in " The Children Beneath the Seat." And in "Idyllic Little Bali" a group of Americans gathers around a pool in Java to discuss their brushes with fame and ends up witnessing a man's fatal flight from his wife."--BOOK JACKET.
655 7 $aShort stories.$2gsafd
830 0 $aFlannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001038328
852 00 $bglx$hPS3615.S64$iB54 2009
852 00 $bbar$hPS3615.S64$iB54 2009