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Final Vinyl Days and Other Stories

Final Vinyl Days and Other Stories Hard cover - 1998

by McCorkle, Jill

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first

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Chapel Hill, N.C: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x0x7. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1998 Hard Cover. 212 pp. When Jill McCorkle feels a short story coming on, she goes right ahead and "wastes" wonderful ideas instead of hoarding them for a novel. The result is another extraordinary collection of stories and characters. In "It's a Funeral! RSVP," the storyteller is a woman who takes up self-styled "careers" that suit her circumstances. Now she's stumbled onto one that's so successful that she just can't quit. It's planning funerals, what she calls Going Out Parties, in which the clients are the soon-to-be-deceased themselves. In "Life Prerecorded," perhaps McCorkle's finest short piece to date, the pregnant narrator finds the real meaning of new life by visiting with a very old neighbor who's waiting, too, for his own new life. In these and the rest of the nine stories, Jill McCorkle acts on her penchant for taming the outrageous, humanizing the forbidden, and grounding the hilarious.
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  • Title Final Vinyl Days and Other Stories
  • Author McCorkle, Jill
  • Binding Hard Cover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 212
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C
  • Date 1998
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2281885
  • ISBN 9781565122048 / 1565122046
  • Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.33 x 5.35 x 0.89 in (18.62 x 13.59 x 2.26 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Southern States - Social life and customs -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97050540
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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