The truly needy and other stories
By: Lucy Honig.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Stories on various subjects. The story, No Friends, All Strangers, is the experience of a woman employee with customers in a beauty salon, English as a Second Language is on an immigrant woman, and the title story is on a social services agency.
Notes: "Drue Heinz Literature Prize 1999."
Table of contents: title: No friends, all strangers; title: English as a second language; title: After; title: Hilda; title: The sights of Cork; title: The truly needy; title: Refuge; title: Love, rescue, care, dream, sweep; title: Dispossessed.