num_pages: 164
description: Fiction. Winner of the Second Annual Tartts First Fiction Award. These stories explore the darker side of human nature, moving from broken gamblers on the run to small time hold-up artists and disconsolate lovers. The settings are varied: Atlantic City, Key West, upstate New York, and--for many of the stories--the parks, playgrounds and streets of the Bronx. Place, like loss, is also a transformative force. It lives inside Cioffari's characters, shapes desire and the actions that derive from desire.
language: English
title: A History of Things Lost or Broken: Stories
titlecomplete: A History of Things Lost or Broken: Stories
ratings_count: 4
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Tartt Fiction Award
publisher: Livingston Press