Some kinds of love : stories /
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| Author / Creator: | Yates, Steve B., 1968- |
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| Uniform title: | Short stories. Selections |
| Imprint: | Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2013. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 258 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Juniper Prize for Fiction Juniper Prize for Fiction. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11190326 |
| Summary: | Sometimes the opposite of love is not hate, but depravity. In these twelve stories set in the Missouri Ozarks, New Orleans, and Mississippi, Steve Yates reveals lovers clawing back from precipices of destructiveness, obsessiveness, cruelty, vanity, or greed. They seek escape and yet find new barriers, realizing true love may not be at all what they imagined. Pioneers, limestone quarry owners, young German American Civil War survivors, bankers, sex toy catalog designers, highway engineers, Pakistani terrorists, attorneys, missile guidance masterminds, and furniture factory workers (who can see the future) populate these pieces. From the Ozarks of the 1830s, when locals perceive doomsday in a historic starfall, to the near future at an all-night slow-pitch softball tournament when Armageddon looms yet again, these stories chart the dark side of love, the ties that bind families, and the sweet complications of human desire. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 258 pages) : illustrations |
| Awards: | Juniper Prize for Fiction, 2012. |
| ISBN: | 9781613762646 161376264X 9781625340283 1625340281 9781625340276 1625340273 |