TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zafris,Nancy
TI  - The people I know: stories 
T2  - Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
SN  - 9780820346656
AV  - PS3576.A285 P6 1990eb
U1  - 813/.54 22
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Athens
PB  - University of Georgia Press
KW  - FICTION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - fast
KW  - United States
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Fiction
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Romans, nouvelles, etc
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction."; Cosmetic surgery --; The people I know --; Meeting in Tokyo --; Morning at the beach --; Grace's reply --; A minor fatality --; Final weeks --; The metal shredders --; From where I sit
N2  - The People I Know is a collection of nine stories, told by characters who hover at the edge of life. Whether it's Lorne, perched on a sofa as a wedding party swirls around him, or the elderly Mrs. R of ""Morning at the Beach, "" imagining a career in crime as she sits on the front porch of a Miami hotel, these are people oddly accustomed to the sidelines of their worlds. Nancy Zafris's characters do not so much hurdle their barriers as contemplate them with varying degrees of humor, regret, and fanciful expectation. Gazing out of his window at a horizon of crushed cars, Bonner Junior fantasizes
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