Jane of hearts : and other stories /

Jane of hearts : and other stories /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Weber, Katharine, 1955- author.
Edition:	First Paul Dry Books edition.
Imprint:	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Paul Dry Books, Inc., 2022. ©2022
Description:	202 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Older women -- Fiction. Children -- Fiction. Connecticut -- Fiction. novellas. short stories. Novellas. Short stories.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12704961

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ISBN:	9781589881594 1589881591
Summary:	"At the heart of every story in this collection, desire, events, and identity intersect and often collide for Katharine Weber's...characters. Children go door to door selling poison mushrooms. An elderly New Yorker on the brink of losing her freedom bolts for one last dignified adventure. In the title novella, lonely children roaming their Connecticut neighborhood discover a forgotten bomb shelter, which they make their secret headquarters"--Back cover.

Table of Contents:

Mr. Antler's princess dust
Friend of the family
Sleeping
Louisa Huntington's last caller, at Easter
Shooting in sequence
Party animals like it's 1982
Sunday, upstate
Green thumb
Channel-surfing with the treatment team
The view from the 99th floor
Safe
Tiny stapler
The Madagascar plan of Julius Czaplinsky
Diamond district
Thistles
Jane of hearts.