Sleeping funny
Subtitle: stories
By: Miranda Hill
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Toronto]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780385676830
Subjects: Canadian Short stories; Kurzgeschichte; Englisch
Description: "In nine stories, Miranda Hill explores the consciousness of a modern teenage girl trying to navigate an embarrassing sex ed class, a middle-aged country-village minister in the 19th century who is experiencing a devastating crisis of faith, a young pilot's widow coping with her grief by growing a Victory Garden during World War II, and a group of contemporary professional women living on a gentrified big-city street whose routines are thrown into disarray with the arrival of a beautiful, bohemian neighbour."--Author's website.
Notes: Issued also in an electronic format.
Table of contents: title: The variance; title: Apple; title: Petitions to St. Chronic; title: 6:19; title: Because of Geraldine; title: Precious; title: Digging for Thomas; title: Rise: a requiem (with parts for voice and wing); title: Sleeping funny.