Out of time : stories /
Schmidt, Geoff, 1963-
Out of time : stories / Geoff Schmidt. - Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, ©2011. - 1 online resource (ix, 109 pages) - Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction series ; no. 10. .
Cover; Half Title; Previous Winners; Title Page; cip; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Man in Gorilla Suit by Moonlight; Chapter One; Tangle Apple Flesh; Chapter Two; Wherever You Are, You're Already Gone; Chapter Three; The Last Cigarette; Chapter Four; Jenny, with Bulldog; Chapter Five; The Real Mother's Song; Chapter Six; The Corrupter of Words; Chapter Seven; The Age of Being; Praise Pages.
Geoff Schmidt's debut collection ""Out of Time"" is a meditation on meaning and mortality, and the ways that story and the imagined life can sustain us. In these stories time is running out for the people, yet the power of language, the human ability to tell, to imagine and invent, is a redemptive force.
2011 winner, Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction.
9781574414448 (electronic bk.) 1574414445 (electronic bk.) 1574413198 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9781574413199 (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
PROJMUSE CostPaid FormOnline AccessRestricted GovNo
Mortality--Fiction.
Old age--Fiction.
Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
Mortalité--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Vieillesse--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Familles inadaptées--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
Dysfunctional families.
Mortality.
Old age.
Multi-User
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
short stories.
Short stories.
Fiction.
Short stories.
Short stories.
Nouvelles.
PS3569.C51549 / O95 2011
813/.54
Out of time : stories / Geoff Schmidt. - Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, ©2011. - 1 online resource (ix, 109 pages) - Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction series ; no. 10. .
Cover; Half Title; Previous Winners; Title Page; cip; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Man in Gorilla Suit by Moonlight; Chapter One; Tangle Apple Flesh; Chapter Two; Wherever You Are, You're Already Gone; Chapter Three; The Last Cigarette; Chapter Four; Jenny, with Bulldog; Chapter Five; The Real Mother's Song; Chapter Six; The Corrupter of Words; Chapter Seven; The Age of Being; Praise Pages.
Geoff Schmidt's debut collection ""Out of Time"" is a meditation on meaning and mortality, and the ways that story and the imagined life can sustain us. In these stories time is running out for the people, yet the power of language, the human ability to tell, to imagine and invent, is a redemptive force.
2011 winner, Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction.
9781574414448 (electronic bk.) 1574414445 (electronic bk.) 1574413198 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9781574413199 (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
PROJMUSE CostPaid FormOnline AccessRestricted GovNo
Mortality--Fiction.
Old age--Fiction.
Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
Mortalité--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Vieillesse--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Familles inadaptées--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
Dysfunctional families.
Mortality.
Old age.
Multi-User
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
short stories.
Short stories.
Fiction.
Short stories.
Short stories.
Nouvelles.
PS3569.C51549 / O95 2011
813/.54