A jeweler's eye for flaw
Subtitle: stories
By: Christie Hodgen.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Description: In this striking debut collection, Christie Hodgen examines the shifting fortunes of several hard-pressed American families, charting their triumphs and failures with honesty and precision. Humor, loneliness, optimism, and despair commingle in these memorable stories.
Notes: "Winner of the Associated Writing Programs 2001 Award in Short Fiction"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: A jeweler's eye for flaw; title: Take them in, please; title: Three parting shots and a forecast; title: Going out of business forever; title: What the rabbi said to the priest; title: Sir Karl LaFong or current resident; title: The great Americans; title: The hero of loneliness; title: The tender of unmarked graves.