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The Expendables

The Expendables

The Expendables
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The Expendables Paperback - 1999

by Nelson, Antonya,

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In vignettes that capture the pleasures and pains of our most intimate relationships, this debut collection displays the author's off-beat perceptions, humor, and sensibility.

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  • Title The Expendables
  • Author Nelson, Antonya,
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Scribner pbk
  • Condition New
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scribner Book Company, Many
  • Publication date 1999-02-18
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1667307-n
  • ISBN 9780684846859 / 0684846853
  • Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.93 x 5.17 x 0.44 in (20.14 x 13.13 x 1.12 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Social life and customs -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98051976
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 5

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Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award, Antonya Nelson's debut collection of stories displays the off-beat perceptions, the humor, and the sensibility that have won the author not only critical acclaim but a host of devoted readers. Most of the stories in The Expendables are about marriage -- marriage in process, about to be, about not to be anymore, possibly transgressed, and decidedly not transgressed. In the title story, a teenage boy participates in the spectacle of his sister's second marriage. In "Dog Problems," a husband muses about his wife's attachment to her dog, a bond that predates their marriage and will -- he fears -- outlast it. There is the woman in "Affair Life," happily encircled by her husband and child, who still must choose between her marriage and what is not quite yet an infidelity. Ranging in setting from Atlanta to Chicago and Kansas City, from the arid Southwest to the course of a river running through Colorado canyon walls, the stories in The Expendables show our relationship with destiny, whether resisted, invented, obeyed, or forced.
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