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The returns
- Title
- The returns / Dennis Barone.
- Author
- Barone, Dennis.
- Publication
- Los Angeles : Sun & Moon Press, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3552.A7312 R48 1996 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 89 pages; 19 cm.
- Summary
- An officer encounters a hapless Nell with her beaten son on a cliff just before he attacks a nameless army; in a city where all houses are painted blue, a record keeper tracks filter replacement and filtermen; in the midst of Thanksgiving dinner a boy suddenly encounters a pilot of an x-15 rocket and a salesman, who seem to sympathize with one another.
- In these strange and yet seemingly familiar tales the past and the language is grafted onto the present world, with a language that has fallen into near meaningless ("Boil, make my stomach hard and himself in eyes, his. Up little code, he to read."). In the process, Barone creates a new world, perhaps not so brave, but fresh as a "Texas whoopee!"
- Series Statement
- New American fiction series ; 36
- Uniform Title
- New American fiction series ; 36.
- Subject
- Manners and customs > Fiction
- Contents
- The Tower of Babel -- Only Half -- Deliberations -- When This Is -- His eyes fixed upon things he did not know -- The Returns -- The Rectory Balance -- Penetration -- The Middle Distance -- Ask Elvis Over -- A Day in the Park -- Arnold and Howard -- Didi and Herman -- Boy -- Hotel Arrangements -- The Histories.
- ISBN
- 1557131848 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96003455
- OCLC
- ocm34192832
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries