num_pages: 277
description: Fourteen stories focus on a group of southern women who seek happiness and a sense of worth in bars, marriages, divorces, art, drug use, lovers' arms, and earthquakes
language: English
title: Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
titlecomplete: Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
genres: Japan, 20th Century, Southern, Literature, Contemporary, Short Stories, Classics, Fiction, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 2186
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award
category: Literature
publisher: Little Brown, 1984.