Safe as houses /
Bertino, Marie-Helene.
Safe as houses / Marie-Helene Bertino. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (126 pages). - Iowa short fiction award .
Free Ham; Sometimes You Break Their Hearts, Sometimes They Break Yours; The Idea of Marcel; This Is Your Will to Live; Great, Wondrous; Safe as Houses; Carry Me Home, Sisters of Saint Joseph.
Safe as Houses, the debut story collection of Marie-Helene Bertino, proves that not all homes are shelters. The titular story revolves around an aging English professor who, mourning the loss of his wife, robs other people's homes of their sentimental knick-knacks. In ""Free Ham, "" a young dropout wins a ham after her house burns down and refuses to accept it. "Has my ham done anything wrong?" she asks when the grocery store manager demands that she claim it. In ""Carry Me Home, Sisters of Saint Joseph, "" a failed commercial writer moves into the basemen.
9781609381318 (electronic bk.) 1609381319 (electronic bk.) (pbk. ; acid-free paper) (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
ebc1016486
22573/ctt20n7gjn JSTOR
Short stories, American.
American fiction.
Nouvelles américaines.
Roman américain.
FICTION--General.
American fiction.
Short stories, American.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PS3602.E7683 / S25 2012eb
813/.6
Safe as houses / Marie-Helene Bertino. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (126 pages). - Iowa short fiction award .
Free Ham; Sometimes You Break Their Hearts, Sometimes They Break Yours; The Idea of Marcel; This Is Your Will to Live; Great, Wondrous; Safe as Houses; Carry Me Home, Sisters of Saint Joseph.
Safe as Houses, the debut story collection of Marie-Helene Bertino, proves that not all homes are shelters. The titular story revolves around an aging English professor who, mourning the loss of his wife, robs other people's homes of their sentimental knick-knacks. In ""Free Ham, "" a young dropout wins a ham after her house burns down and refuses to accept it. "Has my ham done anything wrong?" she asks when the grocery store manager demands that she claim it. In ""Carry Me Home, Sisters of Saint Joseph, "" a failed commercial writer moves into the basemen.
9781609381318 (electronic bk.) 1609381319 (electronic bk.) (pbk. ; acid-free paper) (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
ebc1016486
22573/ctt20n7gjn JSTOR
Short stories, American.
American fiction.
Nouvelles américaines.
Roman américain.
FICTION--General.
American fiction.
Short stories, American.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PS3602.E7683 / S25 2012eb
813/.6