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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: high places
    sub title: stories
  title info:
    title: Short stories. Selections
  name:
    name part: McFarlane, Fiona
    name part: 1978-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: short story
  genre: Short stories.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    edition: First American edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 280 pages ; 22 cm
  abstract: "What a terrible thing at a time like this: to own a house, and the trees around it. Janet sat rigid in her seat. The plane lifted from the city and her house fell away, consumed by the other houses. Janet worried about her own particular garden and her emptied refrigerator and her lamps that had been timed to come on at six. So begins "Mycenae," a story in The High Places, Fiona McFarlane's first story collection. Her stories skip across continents, eras, and genres to chart the borderlands of emotional life. In "Mycenae," she describes a middle-aged couple's disastrous vacation with old friends. In "Good News for Modern Man," a scientist lives on a small island with only a colossal squid and the ghost of Charles Darwin for company. And in the title story, an Australian farmer turns to Old Testament methods to relieve a fatal drought. Each story explores what Flannery O'Connor called "mystery and manners." The collection dissects the feelings--longing, contempt, love, fear--that animate our existence and hints at a reality beyond the smallness of our lives. Salon's Laura Miller called McFarlane's The Night Guest "a novel of uncanny emotional penetration. How could anyone so young portray so persuasively what it feels like to look back on a lot more life than you can see in front of you?" The High Places is further evidence of McFarlane's preternatural talent, a debut collection that reads like the selected works of a literary great"--
  abstract: "A debut short-story collection from the author of The Night Guest"--
  table of contents: Exotic animal medicine -- Art appreciation -- Mycenae -- Man and bird -- Unnecessary gifts -- Those Americans falling from the sky -- Rose Bay -- Violet, violet -- The movie people -- Cara mia -- Buttony -- Good news for modern man -- The high places.
  note: Fiona McFarlane.
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Short Stories (single author)
  subject:
    topic: Short stories
  classification: PR9619.4.M38355 A6 2016
  classification: 823/.92
  classification: FIC029000
  identifier: 9780865478046
  identifier: 086547804X
  identifier: 9780374710736
  identifier: 2015038515
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 151030
    record change date: 20170927140149.0
    record identifier: in00003794341
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng