Author

Publication

1996 - Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland

Language

English

Word Count

52,250 words, Guess

Page Count

209 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing2520086
  • Goodreads5005758

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3560.O3775 I2 1996

Description

In this new collection of thirteen short stories, O. Henry Award-winning author Greg Johnson displays all the wit, irony, and insight into human relationships his readers have come to expect. After a family argument, a teenaged boy takes refuge in a backyard tree - until his drunken father decides it's time to get him down. A close-knit, working-class family experiences new pressures when a troubled uncle comes home from the "hospital." Entering a darkened theater for an afternoon matinee, a young man recovering from a failed romance unwittingly sits down next to the only other member of the audience. And a Key West honeymoon seems eerily innocent until the past catches up with the bride and groom.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction

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