Lent: The Slow Fast (Iowa Short Fiction Award) - Hardcover

Flythe, Starkey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877452741 ISBN 13: 9780877452744

Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr, 1990

Synopsis

Iowa City 1990 first edition. University of Iowa. Hardcover octavo.ISBN 0877452741. 152p. Fine (slight price tag residue on end paper ) in Near Fine dj.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

The 11 stories in this recipient of the 1989 Iowa Short Fiction Award, well-crafted in plot and vivid in language, form a funny and sad whole that powerfully exceeds the sum of its parts. Characters just embarking on adulthood--as in "For a Good Time, Call Matthew" and "Learning Italian" and "The Glass of Milk"--or confronting death and separation, as in "Walking, Walking," are universally motivated by love in a variety of forms, including healthy self-love. Changing relationships, like those in "Lent," "Every Known Diversion" and "The Coalition," force characters to reconsider the emotional and sexual discoveries of their youth while foreshadowing a later acceptance of disillusionment and sense of fulfillment. Convincing, likable characters and archetypal experiences enrich Flythe's first--but, one hopes, not his last--book.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0877452741
• ISBN 13: 9780877452744
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152