| Personal Name |
Marciano, Francesca, author.
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| Uniform Title |
Short stories. Selections
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| Title Statement |
Animal spirit : stories / Francesca Marciano.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Pantheon Books, [2020]
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| Physical Description |
235 pages ; 22 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Terrible things could happen to us -- The girl -- Animal spirit -- Indian land -- There might be blood -- The callback.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Centering us in Rome, but transporting us seamlessly into worlds as varied and exotic as they are emotionally real, these stories paint landscapes that are populated-vividly, hauntingly-by animals: from squawking, violent seagulls to magical snakes to a tiny dog on the side of a deserted road to starlings circling the evening sky in exhilarating formation. In the foreground, in unforgettable, cinematic frames, events unfold, especially in the lives of women: an affair ends painfully at a dinner table; an actress's past comes crashing down on her during an audition; an unhappy wife seeks but can't quite find respite in a historic palazzo sublet; two couples imagine parenthood in the home of a woman named for the Greek goddess Hera; a young girl returns from drug rehab and sets out anew, with a traveling circus; a man in crisis draws his ex-girlfriend deep into the New Mexico desert. Each story tells of deeply human moments of realization and recognition, instants of irrevocable change, and, for the fortunate, of unexpected clarity"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Short stories.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Human-animal relationships Fiction.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Marciano, Francesca. Animal spirit.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Marciano, Francesca. Callback.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Marciano, Francesca. Girl.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Marciano, Francesca. Indian land.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Marciano, Francesca. Terrible things could happen to us.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Marciano, Francesca. There might be blood.
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