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2007 Softcover First Printing As New 0930501314. Unread, unmarked, very little shelf wear. Stories about young people and the various losses they suffer-primarily the loss of ... innocence at the hands of experience (from back cover). Winner of the Tartt First Fiction Award.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 164 pages. Read more Show Less

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Fiction. Winner of the Second Annual Tartts First Fiction Award. These stories explore the darker side of human nature, moving from broken gamblers on the run to small time hold-up artists and disconsolate lovers. The settings are varied: Atlantic City, Key West, upstate New York, and--for many of the stories--the parks, playgrounds and streets of the Bronx. Place, like loss, is also a transformative force. It lives inside Cioffari's characters, shapes desire and the actions that derive from desire.
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Fiction. Winner of the Second Annual Tartts First Fiction Award. These stories explore the darker side of human nature, moving from broken gamblers on the run to small time hold-up artists and disconsolate lovers. The settings are varied: Atlantic City, Key West, upstate New York, and--for many of the stories--the parks, playgrounds and streets of the Bronx. Place, like loss, is also a transformative force. It lives inside Cioffari's characters, shapes desire and the actions that derive from desire.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780930501310
  • Publisher: Livingston Press
  • Publication date: 5/28/2007
  • Pages: 164
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Table of Contents


A History of Things Lost or Broken     1
Love is for Vanishing into the Sky     16
Gun Hill Road     23
Wetlands     36
Turns     46
Rat Hunting in the BronX     59
This Town in Winter     68
Escape Routes     78
Scavengers     86
Blue Springs     94
Bottle-Land     108
Ocean Blue     114
Playing Hardball on Cement     119
Zoned Industrial     128
Dangerously the Summer Burns     138
Gameworld     145
The Blue of Evening     160

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