No Thanks

by Smith, Sarah Jane

• ISBN13: 9781930974104
• ISBN10: 1930974108
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: New Issues Poetry & Prose

Summary

Fiction. Short Stories. "Like Jean Stafford, Edna O'Brien and Shena Mackay, Sarah Smith reminds us that the turmoil of family and self is the short story's terrain, a complex space that is most fully seen in the clarity with which a highly focused, personal prose can detail the world. These are wonderfully vivid, well-crafted stories - sometimes raucous, always strangely disconcerting" - Michael Anania.

Author Biography

Sarah Jane Smith grew up on Magician Lake in rural southwestern Michigan, along with a Welsh pony, horses, cats, dogs, gerbils, turties, peacocks, chickens, and some goats who ran away. She attended Interlochen Arts Academy where she studied English, the oboe and the English horn. Sarah Jane Smith received her Ph.D. in English with Creative Dissertation from The University of Illinois, Chicago. Her short fiction has appeared in New England Review, Passages North, Third Coast, Madison Review, Other Voices, and Rio: A Journal of the Arts

Table of Contents

Selling the House	p. 5
Valerie Rakes the Leaves	p. 13
Healing the Mare	p. 39
Gar Fishing	p. 57
Turtle Hunting with Black	p. 67
Black Bean Soup	p. 95
Oboe Camp	p. 113
Metamorphose, Oboe	p. 139
No Thanks	p. 153
My Father Weeping	p. 167
Jack in Chicago	p. 187
Looping	p. 193
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