The Resource Better times : short stories, Sara Batkie
Better times : short stories, Sara Batkie
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- Summary
- "Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the stories in Better Times focus on what's happening in places people don't think to look. Women, sometimes displaced, often lonely, are at the heart of these stories. In Better Times Sara Batkie focuses on the moments in women's lives when the wider world is wrapped up in other matters: a father and daughter, separated by time and an ocean, dreaming of each other; a girl in a home for "troubled women" imagining the journey of the first dog in space; a phantom breast returning to haunt a woman after her mastectomy; a young woman giving birth to a litter of eggs. Such are the ordinary women weathering extraordinary circumstances in Better Times. Divided into three sections covering the recent past, our current era, and the world to come, the stories gathered here--with characters stymied by loneliness, motherhood, illness, even cataclysmic climate change--interrogate the idea that so-called better times ever existed, particularly for women"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 140 pages
- Contents
-
- When her father was an island
- Laika
- Foreigners
- No man's land
- Cleavage
- North country, early morning
- Departures
- Lookaftering
- Those who left and those who stayed
- Isbn
- 9781496207876
- Label
- Better times : short stories
- Title
- Better times
- Title remainder
- short stories
- Statement of responsibility
- Sara Batkie
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the stories in Better Times focus on what's happening in places people don't think to look. Women, sometimes displaced, often lonely, are at the heart of these stories. In Better Times Sara Batkie focuses on the moments in women's lives when the wider world is wrapped up in other matters: a father and daughter, separated by time and an ocean, dreaming of each other; a girl in a home for "troubled women" imagining the journey of the first dog in space; a phantom breast returning to haunt a woman after her mastectomy; a young woman giving birth to a litter of eggs. Such are the ordinary women weathering extraordinary circumstances in Better Times. Divided into three sections covering the recent past, our current era, and the world to come, the stories gathered here--with characters stymied by loneliness, motherhood, illness, even cataclysmic climate change--interrogate the idea that so-called better times ever existed, particularly for women"--
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- Publisher marketing
- Cataloging source
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Batkie, Sara
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- short stories
- Series statement
- Prairie Schooner book prize in fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- Women
- Target audience
- general
- Label
- Better times : short stories, Sara Batkie
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- When her father was an island -- Laika -- Foreigners -- No man's land -- Cleavage -- North country, early morning -- Departures -- Lookaftering -- Those who left and those who stayed
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 140 pages
- Isbn
- 9781496207876
- Lccn
- 2018014270
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1031419850
- Label
- Better times : short stories, Sara Batkie
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- When her father was an island -- Laika -- Foreigners -- No man's land -- Cleavage -- North country, early morning -- Departures -- Lookaftering -- Those who left and those who stayed
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 140 pages
- Isbn
- 9781496207876
- Lccn
- 2018014270
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1031419850
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