Aliens of affection
stories
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1998 - Henry Holt and Co., New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
55,000 words, Guess
Page Count
220 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL664854M
- ISBN-100805052135
- OCLC Control Number36589241
- OCLC Control Numberaliensofaffectio00powe
- Library of Congress Control Number97010451
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- Goodreads483604
- LibraryThing141072
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3566.O8328 A79 1998
Description
Aliens of Affection marks new territory for Padgett Powell, picking up where his first collection of stories, Typical, left off. Although his characters continue to revolt against the received instructions of modern American living - refusing to be dunked in what Saul Bellow has called the "marinade of correctness" - their concerns are less for independence than for the maintenance of sanity itself. Emotional estrangement seems both inevitable and worth fighting against to the middle-aged heroine of the O. Henry prizewinner "Trick or Treat"; to the unmistakably American roofer of "Wayne" (who was introduced in Typical); to the deserted husband, father, and non-vet of "Dump"; and to the fantastic heroes in three stories grouped as "All Along the Watchtower."
Other Editions
- Aliens of affection: stories
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