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The Resource All that is left is all that matters : stories, Mark Slouka

All that is left is all that matters : stories, Mark Slouka

Label
All that is left is all that matters : stories
Title
All that is left is all that matters
Title remainder
stories
Statement of responsibility
Mark Slouka
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"A searing, poignantly rendered collection of stories chronicling the lives of ordinary people battling the forces of love and loss. In eleven beautifully wrought stories--ranging from occupied Czechoslovakia to California's Central Valley to the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest--Mark Slouka explores moments in life when our backs are to the wall. Whether battling the end of desire, the fact of injustice, or death itself, the men and women in these stories are willing to use whatever comes to hand--luck, accident, desperate gesture--to emerge victorious. In "Crossing," a father hoping to compensate for his failures finds himself facing his past while fording a river with his young son on his back; in "Conception," a young couple frozen by the possible end of their marriage is offered an unexpected way back; in "Half-Life," a proud, aging shut-in finds her resolve tested by an extraordinary visitor determined to shatter her solitude. Alternately harrowing and redemptive, these are stories of ordinary men and women, doing everything possible to tighten their grip on life" --
Member of
Tone
Writing style
Award
Library Journal Best Books, 2018.
Assigning source
Provided by publisher
http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
10664775
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Slouka, Mark
Dewey number
813/.54
Index
no index present
Literary form
short stories
http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
True
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Life change events
  • Control (Psychology)
  • Control (Psychology)
  • Life change events
http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
stories
Label
All that is left is all that matters : stories, Mark Slouka
Instantiates
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • 1963
  • Dog
  • Half-Life
  • Bramble Boy
  • The Angels Come to Panorama Heights
  • Bakersfield
  • Crossing
  • Dominion
  • The Hare's Mask
  • Then
  • King's Cross
  • Russian Mammoths
  • August
  • Justice
  • Conception
Control code
1955579
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
175 pages
Isbn
9780393292282
Lccn
2017060266
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780393292282
  • (OCoLC)1005104438
Label
All that is left is all that matters : stories, Mark Slouka
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • 1963
  • Dog
  • Half-Life
  • Bramble Boy
  • The Angels Come to Panorama Heights
  • Bakersfield
  • Crossing
  • Dominion
  • The Hare's Mask
  • Then
  • King's Cross
  • Russian Mammoths
  • August
  • Justice
  • Conception
Control code
1955579
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
175 pages
Isbn
9780393292282
Lccn
2017060266
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780393292282
  • (OCoLC)1005104438

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