Mrs. Somebody Somebody
Subtitle: stories ; fiction
By: Tracy Winn
Edition: Random House trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780812981452
Description: In the troubled mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, a young millworker dreams of marrying rich and becoming "Mrs. Somebody Somebody"; an undercover union organizer's privileged past shapes her cause; a Korean War veteran returns to the wife he never really got to know--and the couple's overindulged children grow up to act out against their parents; and, a town resident reflects on a long-lost love and the treasure he keeps close to his heart.
Notes: Originally published in 2009 in hardcover in the United States by Southern Methodist University Press.

Includes reader's guide and questions and topics for discussion (p. [195]-207).

"Some of the stories in this collection appeared first in slightly different form in the following publications: 'Another Way to Make Cleopatra Cry' as 'An Everyday,' in Alaska Quarterly Review; 'Copper Leaves Waving,' in The New Orleans Review; 'Glass Box' as 'Glass Box, 1956,' in Alaska Quarterly Review; 'Cantogallo' as 'Izabel Tiago,' in Passages North; and 'Smoke' in Hayden's Ferry Review"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Mrs. Somebody Somebody --; title: Blue tango --; title: Glass box --; title: Gumbo limbo --; title: Smoke --; title: Another way to make Cleopatra cry --; title: Frankie floats --; title: Copper leaves waving --; title: Cantogallo --; title: Luck be a lady.