If the Heart Is Lean: Stories Contributor(s): Luongo, Margaret (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807133760 ISBN-13: 9780807133767 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2008010719 |
Series: Yellow Shoe Fiction |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.55 lbs) 166 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The sixteen stories in Margaret Luongo's If the Heart Is Lean etch sharp portraits of people in odd and sometimes surreal situations who thus have the opportunity to view their lives from a unique perspective. In Chestnut Season, a young woman stalled in traffic sees her future self parked beside her; in Boyfriends, the recently deceased protagonist endures eulogies by her ex-beaus and husbands; in Mrs. Fargo, a young man faces a reckoning with his first-grade teacher, a suicide, for whom he's harbored a crush and whom he hopes to impress with his worldly successes. The short-short Buoyant introduces Elise, nine months pregnant, as she drifts down the Santa Fe River, trying to jettison her suddenly circumscribed existence. Desperate to impress upon his students the seriousness of life, the professor in Pedagogy' boils his head, discovering in the end a lesson learned too late. |