A Bed of Nails

by Tanner, Ron

• ISBN13: 9781886157422
• ISBN10: 1886157421
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Bkmk Pr/Umkc
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Summary

Fiction. "[Ron Tanner] is fabulously imaginative, experimental, witty, often breathtaking...both male and female voices are handled beautifully, although the prose is what we've come to call 'muscular.' At first I felt that this was actually two collections, one concerned with life as we know it and one as we fear it will be--but came to believe that the worlds are perfectly married through their askew inventiveness and their witty contemporary language. It's very assured and audacious work" --Janet Burroway, 2002 Judge, Chandra Prize.

Table of Contents

a Bed of Nails	9	(14)
a Handful of Nails	23	(18)
Still Life	41	(18)
Garbage	59	(8)
a Model Family	67	(12)
Loaves and Fishes	79	(14)
Ruth	93	(14)
the Ape in Me	107	(12)
High Heat for Cotton	119	(10)
You're a Sergeant	129	(12)
Telephone: an Act in Three Plays	141	(6)
Red Shoes	147	(12)
the Day His Wife's Face Froze	159