Things kept, things left behind
By: Jim Tomlinson
Series: The Iowa short fiction award
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9780877459910
Description: Tomlinson has crafted a debut collection around characters who cannot let go of their past, from a woman who finds herself trapped again with her first big mistake to a returning soldier who finally feels capable of exacting revenge for a long-ago family tragedy. Tomlinson's characters struggle to escape their personal histories but are thwarted by a paralyzing inability to do so.
Table of contents: title: First husband, first wife; title: Lake Charles; title: The accomplished son; title: Squirrels; title: Things kept; title: Paragon tea; title: Flights; title: Things left behind; title: Marathon man; title: Prologue (two lives in letters); title: Stainless.