Research Catalog
Maggie Boylan
- Title
- Maggie Boylan / Michael Henson.
- Author
- Henson, Mike
- Publication
- Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, [2018]
- ©2015
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-2371 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- vii, 151 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Set in Appalachian Ohio amid an epidemic of prescription opiate abuse, Michael Henson's linked collection tells of a woman's search for her own peculiar kind of redemption and brings the novel-in-stories form to new heights. Maggie Boylan is an addict, thief, liar, and hustler. But she is also a woman of deep compassion and resilience. The stories follow Maggie as she spirals through her addictive process, through the court system and treatment, and into a shaky new beginning. In these masterful stories, we rarely occupy Maggie's perspective, but instead gain a multilayered portrait of a community as we see other people's lives bump up against hers and we witness her inserting herself into their spheres, refusing to be rebuffed. The result is a prismatic view of a community fighting to stay upright against the headwinds of a drug epidemic: always on edge, always human." -- Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Contents
- Maggie Boylan -- Black Friday -- The way the world is -- Timothy Weatherstone -- Liars -- All this craziness -- Probation -- The girl who spoke foreign -- Acceptance is the answer -- Pillhead Hill.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-2371
- ISBN
- 0804012024
- 9780804012027
- 0804012016
- 9780804012010
- 9780804040914
- 0804040915
- LCCN
- 2017959230
- OCLC
- 1005892691
- Author
- Henson, Mike, author.
- Title
- Maggie Boylan / Michael Henson.
- Publisher
- Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Edition
- First Swallow Press / Ohio University Press edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- REPRINT OF 2015 ED. BY BRIGHTHORSE BOOKS; PUB. AS THE WAY THE WORLD IS: THE MAGGIE BOYLAN STORIES.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-2371