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Liars Like Him, Samantha Lynne Duncan
Liars Like Him, Samantha Lynne Duncan
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
This is a collection of short stories, which fall somewhere between the realist and absurdist genres of fiction. Most of them take place in or around Ohio. Birds and humans often appear side by side.
Excerpt From An Untitled Novel, Peter Kent Schumacher
Excerpt From An Untitled Novel, Peter Kent Schumacher
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
A bildungsroman about a seventeen-year-old boy living at a chaotic and mismanaged residential treatment center in western Colorado. Originally admitted for treatment of substance abuse, protagonist Steven Pike soon finds himself in a mire of violent and sexual conflicts with peers and treatment center staff.
Real Live Girls And Other Stories, Emily Karen Jones
Real Live Girls And Other Stories, Emily Karen Jones
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
This is a collection of short stories.
Sudden Fortune, Lehuanani Marie Shelton
Sudden Fortune, Lehuanani Marie Shelton
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
A collection of short stories and experimental forms centered upon the life of Atti, a heroine whose experience as a multi-ethnic, lesbian-identified artist contributes to her (and other characters') theories about identity formation in a global community--one in which Western norms and Chamoru cultural practices are juxtaposed. Atti (whose name in Chamoru means "one who plays tricks") is an atypical heroine-figure, even in the most contemporary American literature, though her experience is representative of a significant community of Pacific Islanders currently living in America.