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Creatures of Habit

Creatures of Habit Paperback - 2003

by Jill McCorkle

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McCorkle's collection of 12 short stories is peopled with characters brilliantly like us--flawed, clueless, endearing. They are also animaled with all manner of mammal, bird, fish, reptile.

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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2003. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Creatures of Habit
  • Author Jill McCorkle
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 2003
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G1565123972I3N00
  • ISBN 9781565123977 / 1565123972
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (20.57 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Animals, Human-animal relationships
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001034835
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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First line

WE USED TO all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes and minibikes.

From the rear cover

Creatures of Habit is so rich, so complete an experience. I marvel at the toughness and the brilliant sensibility.

I don't know how Jill McCorkle does it, but she has the power to alter y emotional state with a single sentence, a line, a seemingly off-hand comment.She can make me shiver with sorrow, and then turn around and get me smiling; she can bring me up with startlement; she can make me anxious; she can horrify me, or scare me. With every line, she indicates my awe.The fact is, McCorkle's great gift is her ability to make me forget that I'm reading at all.

What she does, I think, is slam me into Life in a way that invigorates me and then makes me intensely aware of being alive myself, of being in my own time, in the world. For me, that is what beautiful writing always does, and this is beautiful writing. (Richard Bausch, author of Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea

Praise for Jill McCorkle's stories

Haunting, beautifully crafted.Line by line, paragraph by paragraph, Jill McCorkle's stories are relentlessly funny.but they use humor to earn a much wider range of emotion. (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

An accomplished comic writer who's continually refining here skills and expanding her range, McCorkle is gradually becoming our contemporary Eudora Welty. (Kirkus Reviews)

About the author

Jill McCorkle published her first two novels on the same day in 1984. Of these novels, the New York Times Book Review said: "one suspects the author of The Cheer Leader is a born novelist. With July 7th, she is also a full grown one." Since then she has published five other novels--most recently, Hieroglyphics-- and four collections of short stories. Five of her books have been named New York Times notable books and four of her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories. McCorkle has received the New England Booksellers Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature, the North Carolina Award for Literature and the Thomas Wolfe Prize; she was recently inducted into the NC Literary Hall of Fame. McCorkle has taught at Harvard, Brandeis and NC State where she remains affiliated with the MFA Program in creative writing and she is core faculty in the Bennington Writing Seminars.

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