Better Times: Short Stories Contributor(s): Batkie, Sara (Author) |
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ISBN: 1496207874 ISBN-13: 9781496207876 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
Dewey: 813.6 |
LCCN: 2018014270 |
Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction |
Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.42 lbs) 156 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |