Safe as houses / Marie-Helene Bertino.

By:

Bertino, Marie-Helene

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Iowa short fiction awardPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (126 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781609381318
1609381319

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

813/.6 23

LOC classification:

PS3602.E7683 S25 2012eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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