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Author Shepard, Jim, author.

Uniform Title Short stories. Selections
Title World to come : stories / by Jim Shepard.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2017.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Fiction  RE F Shepard    ---  Available
Edition First Edition.
Description 258 pages ; 22 cm
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Contents Safety tips for living alone -- Wall-to-wall counseling -- HMS Terror -- Cretan Love Song -- The world to come -- The ocean of air -- Positive train controls -- Telemachus -- Forcing joy on young people -- Intimacy
Indexed In: Junior Library Guild
Summary Collection of ten stories in which diverse characters, including 19th century arctic explorers, frontier housewives, and 18th century french balloonists, face everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to historic catastrophes on a global scale.
Audience Ages16-17.
Grades11-12.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG)
Subject Families -- Juvenile fiction.
Short stories.
Family life -- Fiction.
Short stories.
Family life -- Fiction.
Short stories.
ISBN 9781524731809 (hardcover)

 
    
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