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9781558493742

A Jeweler's Eye for Flaw

by Hodgen, Christie
  • ISBN13:

    9781558493742

  • ISBN10:

    1558493743

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-12-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Summary

In this striking debut collection, Christie Hodgen examines the shifting fortunes of several hard-pressed American families, charting their triumphs and failures with honesty and precision. Humor, loneliness, optimism, and despair commingle in these memorable stories.

Author Biography

Christie Hodgen lives in Columbia, Missouri. Her awards include the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, the Ernest Hemingway Days Festival Short Fiction Prize, the Quarterly West Novella Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship

Table of Contents

A Jeweler's Eye for Flawp. 3
Take Them In, Pleasep. 26
Three Parting Shots and a Forecastp. 37
Going Out of Business Foreverp. 51
What the Rabbi Said to the Priestp. 64
Sir Karl LaFong or Current Residentp. 89
The Great Americansp. 112
The Hero of Lonelinessp. 143
The Tender of Unmarked Gravesp. 163
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