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Brides in the sky : stories and a novella
- Title
- Brides in the sky : stories and a novella / Cary Holladay.
- Author
- Holladay, Cary C., 1958-
- Publication
- Athens : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, [2019]
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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 19-2274 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- vii, 173 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Each of the crystalline worlds Cary Holladay brings us in the short stories and novella that make up Brides in the Sky has sisterhood, in all its urgency and peril, at its heart. In the title story, two women in 1850s Virginia marry brothers who promptly uproot them to follow the Oregon Trail west, until an unexpected shift of allegiance separates the sisters forever. Elsewhere in the book, a young boy's kidnapping ignites tensions in a sorority house; frontier figure Cynthia Ann Parker struggles upon her return to her birth community from the Comanche people with whom she's lived a full life; and in a metafictional twist, a gothic tale resonates in the present. In the novella, "A Thousand Stings," three sisters come of age in the 1960s over a long summer of small-town scandal and universal stakes. These are just some of the lives, shaped by migrations, yearning, and the long shadows of myth, that Holladay creates. She crafts them with subtle humor, a stunning sense of place, and an unerring eye for character"--
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Works.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Short stories.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Brides in the sky -- Shades -- Comanche queen -- Fairy tales -- Interview with Etta Place, sweetheart of the Sundance Kid -- Ghost walk -- Operator -- Hay season -- A thousand stings, a novella.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-2274
- ISBN
- 9780804012034
- 0804012032
- 9780804012041
- 0804012040
- 9780804040938 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018043052
- 40028891523
- OCLC
- 1054271034
- Author
- Holladay, Cary C., 1958- author.
- Title
- Brides in the sky : stories and a novella / Cary Holladay.
- Publisher
- Athens : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028891523
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-2274