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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:
    title: Certain American states
    sub title: stories
  title info:
    title: Short stories. Selections
  name:
    name part: Lacey, Catherine
    name part: 1985-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 190 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: In the twelve stories collected in Certain American States, Catherine Lacey, the award-winning author of the acclaimed novels Nobody Is Ever Missing and The Answers, picks apart the minutiae of the human condition with the skill of a surgeon, giving life to a collection of ordinary people seeking, and failing to find, the extraordinary in their lives. The characters in Certain American States are continually coming to terms with their place in the world before change inevitably returns. A woman leaves her dead husband's clothing on the street, only for it to reappear on the body of a stranger, a man reads his ex-wife's short story and neurotically contemplates whether it is about him and a young woman's attempt to deal with family tragedy is interrupted daily by a mute stranger showing her incoherent messages on his phone. These are stories of breakups, abandonment and strained family ties, loneliness, happenstance, starting over and the constant destruction of the self. Catherine Lacey's elegiac and inspired prose is at its full power in Certain American States, her first collection of short fiction, further establishing her as one of the singular literary voices of her generation.
  table of contents: Violations -- ur heck box -- Certain American States -- Because You Have To -- Please Take -- The Healing Center -- Learning -- Touching People -- The Four Immeasurables and Twenty New Immeasurables -- Small Differences -- Family Physics -- The Grand Claremont Hotel.
  note: Catherine Lacey.
  subject:
    topic: Self-realization
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Interpersonal relations
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Psychological
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Psychological
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
  classification: PS3612.A335 A6 2018
  classification: 813/.6
  identifier: 9780374265892
  identifier: 0374265895
  identifier: 9780374714352
  identifier: 2017039432
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170918
    record change date: 20181024144029.0
    record identifier: in00004034106