Mothers and other monsters: Stories

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dc.contributor.authorMcHugh, Maureen F.es
dc.date.accessioned2011-08-26T00:27:45Z
dc.date.available2011-08-26T00:27:45Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description191 p.es
dc.descriptionLibro Electrónicoes
dc.description.abstractA debut collection and finalist for the Story Prize. Maureen F. McHugh is an expert craftswoman who brings her clear-eyed vision (and empathy) to the relationships at the heart of our lives. Her stories are elevant, insightful, and beautifully written: She uses her deceptively simple prose to illuminate the unexpected chasms that open between generations. The reader's guide includes an essay, an interview, and talking points.es
dc.description.abstractThe 13 stories in McHugh's debut collection offer poignant and sometimes heartwrenching explorations of personal relationships and their transformative power. In "Presence," a woman helps her husband through an experimental therapy for his Alzheimer's disease and, by the story's end, is less his spouse than a nurturing mother to his developing personality. "In the Air" bridges three generations with its account of the different emotions a woman wrestles with as she anxiously tracks her wandering senile mother and her rebellious teenage daughter by means of biologically implanted homing devices. "Laika Comes Back Safe" represents so believably the feelings two school friends share about their lives in dysfunctional families that the revelation that one occasionally transforms into a werewolf seems entirely within the realm of possibility. Whether writing an alternate Civil War history in "The Lincoln Train" or a tale of extraterrestrial anthropology in "The Cost to Be Wise," McHugh (Nekropolis) relates her stories as slices of ordinary life whosees
dc.description.tableofcontentsAncestor Moneyes
dc.description.tableofcontentsIn the Aires
dc.description.tableofcontentsThe Cost to Be Wisees
dc.description.tableofcontentsThe Lincoln Traines
dc.description.tableofcontentsInterview: On Any Given Dayes
dc.description.tableofcontentsOversitees
dc.description.tableofcontentsWickedes
dc.description.tableofcontentsLaika Comes Back Safees
dc.description.tableofcontentsPresencees
dc.description.tableofcontentsEight-Legged Storyes
dc.description.tableofcontentsThe Beastes
dc.description.tableofcontentsNekropolises
dc.description.tableofcontentsFrankenstein’s Daughteres
dc.description.tableofcontentsReading Group Guidees
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfes
dc.identifier.citationMcHugh, M.F. (2008). Mothers and other monsters : stories [Adobe Digital Editions version]es
dc.identifier.isbn1-931520-13-5
dc.identifier.urihttp://libros.metabiblioteca.org/handle/001/231
dc.language.isoenges
dc.publisherNorthampton, MA : Small Beer Press, 2008es
dc.relationhttp://www.amazon.com/Mothers-Other-Monsters-Maureen-McHugh/dp/1931520135es
dc.rightsCopyright © 2005 by Maureen F. McHugh. All rights reservedes
dc.rightsCreative Commons Copyright © 2008 by Maureen F. McHugh. Some rights reserved.es
dc.rightsCover image © Condé Nast Archive/Corbis. Photographer: Erwin Blumenfeld.es
dc.rightsCreative Commons License Summary: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0es
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es
dc.sourcehttp://smallbeerpress.com/books/2006/06/01/mothers-other-monsters/es
dc.subjectParent and child--Fictiones
dc.subjectScience fictiones
dc.subjectAmerican literaturees
dc.subjectShort storieses
dc.titleMothers and other monsters: Storieses
dc.typeBookes
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