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Marie-Helene Bertino Safe as Houses (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Safeas Houses
- Publication Name
- Safe as Houses
- Title
- Safe as Houses
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781609381141
- ISBN
- 9781609381141
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 01/10/2012
- Release Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 10.1 Oz
- Intended Audience
- Ages 2-3, Ages 9-12, Ages 4-8, Under 2 Years
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author)
- Number of Pages
- 164 Pages
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Safe as Houses , the debut story collection of Marie-Helene Bertino, proves that not all homes are shelters. The titular story revolves around an aging English professor who, mourning the loss of his wife, robs other people's homes of their sentimental knick-knacks. In "Free Ham," a young dropout wins a ham after her house burns down and refuses to accept it. "Has my ham done anything wrong?" she asks when the grocery store manager demands that she claim it. In "Carry Me Home, Sisters of Saint Joseph," a failed commercial writer moves into the basement of a convent and inadvertently discovers the secrets of the Sisters of Saint Joseph. A girl, hoping to talk her brother out of enlisting in the army, brings Bob Dylan home for Thanksgiving dinner in the quiet, dreamy "North Of." In "The Idea of Marcel," Emily, a conservative, elegant girl, has dinner with the idea of her ex-boyfriend, Marcel. In a night filled with baffling coincidences, including Marcel having dinner with his idea of Emily, she wonders why we tend to be more in love with ideas than with reality. In and out of the rooms of these gritty, whimsical stories roam troubled, funny people struggling to reconcile their circumstances to some kind of American Ideal and failing, over and over. The stories of Safe as Houses are magical and original and help answer such universal and existential questions as: How far will we go to stay loyal to our friends? Can we love a man even though he is inches shorter than our ideal? Why doesn't Bob Dylan ever have his own smokes? And are there patron saints for everything, even lost socks and bad movies? All homes are not shelters. But then again, some are. Welcome to the home of Marie-Helene Bertino.
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Publisher
University of Iowa Press
ISBN-10
1609381149
ISBN-13
9781609381141
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117166271
Product Key Features
Book Title
Safeas Houses
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author)
Intended Audience
Ages 2-3, Ages 9-12, Ages 4-8, Under 2 Years
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
164 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
10.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3602.E7683s25 2012
Reviews
"When have I last read such highly original stories? With a surreal edge and a brilliant dark humor, Safe as Houses 's tales of daughterhood and its mishaps mark a staggeringly good debut."--Deb Olin Unferth, author of Revolution , "When have I last read such highly original stories? With a surreal edge and a brilliant dark humor, Safe as Houses 's tales of daughterhood and its mishaps mark a staggeringly good debut."-Deb Olin Unferth, author of Revolution , "Marie-Helene Bertino's stories are hilarious and heartbreaking and wildly inventive, and her narrators are endlessly appealing and both fiercely proactive and stubbornly self-defeating. That's more than enough for me."-Jim Shepard , "Marie-Helene Bertino's stories are hilarious and heartbreaking and wildly inventive, and her narrators are endlessly appealing and both fiercely proactive and stubbornly self-defeating. That's more than enough for me."--Jim Shepard, "When have I last read such highly original stories? With a surreal edge and a brilliant dark humor, Safe as Houses 's tales of daughterhood and its mishaps mark a staggeringly good debut."--Deb Olin Unferth, author of Revolution, "Marie-Helene Bertino's stories are hilarious and heartbreaking and wildly inventive, and her narrators are endlessly appealing and both fiercely proactive and stubbornly self-defeating. That's more than enough for me."--Jim Shepard
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Juvenile Audience
Lccn
2012-005969
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Series
Iowa Short Fiction Award Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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