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Iowa Short Fiction Award Ser.: Thank You for Being Concerned and Sensitive by Jim Henry (1997, Hardcover)

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Thank You for Being Concerned and Sensitive, Hardcover by Henry, Jim, ISBN 0877456100, ISBN-13 9780877456100, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A collection of short stories is told from the point of view of a cast of social oddballs, outsiders looking in with amused irritation on a world of absurdities

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Jim Henry's stories defy convention. There are no easy answers, no quick fixes. Although the plots vary--from a corpse returning to visit his family weeks after his burial, to the musings of a congressman grappling with the weight of history, to a wealthy family's elaborate plot to cheer their mysteriously wounded mother--all express a sense of the extraordinary in the ordinary, the absurd in the everyday. Henry's characters are for the most part misfits, outsiders looking in on a world whose seemingly natural order is turned upside down. In a throw-away culture obsessed with sex and drugs, money and God, they struggle to connect with what is real while trying to convince themselves that anything is. And yet in the midst of their existential searching there remains always Henry's quirky sense of humor. As one character says, "Anything is possible," and in this collection anything and everything happens.

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Publisher
University of Iowa Press
ISBN-10
0877456100
ISBN-13
9780877456100
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1115438

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Book Title
Thank You for Being Concerned and Sensitive
Author
Jim Henry
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), General
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
152 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
14.7 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3558.E49765t48 199
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"There is present a small speck of Donald Barthelme's alacrity, so that we often see throughout the narrator's eye during a moment of amused irritation. [Henry's] characters struggle with private dreams and demons and with public versus private realities. I think 'Congressman Spoonbender' is a wonderful story, and-as with so many of the stories-it's difficult not to feel uneasily, and perhaps a bit exhilaratingly, implicated."-Ann Beattie, "There is present a small speck of Donald Barthelme's alacrity, so that we often see throughout the narrator's eye during a moment of amused irritation. [Henry's] characters struggle with private dreams and demons and with public versus private realities. I think 'Congressman Spoonbender' is a wonderful story, and--as with so many of the stories--it's difficult not to feel uneasily, and perhaps a bit exhilaratingly, implicated."--Ann Beattie
Copyright Date
1997
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
97-017332
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Series
Iowa Short Fiction Award Ser.
Dewey Edition
21

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