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Book

The shape of Dad

Call Numbers

  • 810.81 K38.1 (CEN)
  • H 810.81 K38.1 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Greensboro, NC : March Street Press, 2005.

Physical Description

66 p. : 19 cm.

Notes

Short stories and poems.

Contents

  • Toe dancing
  • Counter song
  • 1954
  • Atomic energy
  • Self-portrait at 5
  • Public service
  • Moving day
  • A day at the beach
  • Trying to dig to China
  • The girls' room
  • Bait and switch
  • Bargain
  • The shape of Dad
  • Currier and Ives
  • Double feature
  • Pumps to Russellville
  • Basic training
  • The stepmothers
  • Dinner at eight
  • Summer custody
  • Pickerel Lake, 1958
  • The sister
  • The smell of men
  • Our costumes
  • Parting is such xxxxx sorrow
  • What she rote
  • Midway
  • Quality of smoke
  • Forty Winks
  • Love that Bob (Cont.)
  • (Contents continued) Chapped
  • Queen Bee
  • Genetic memory
  • Your worship
  • Custardy
  • The days
  • Five for a dollar
  • Dream the room came equipped with
  • Notions
  • His capacity
  • Waiting for Bud
  • Razing Cane
  • Driving her crazy
  • Gaming
  • The eavesdroppers
  • Night Owl
  • Cottage industry
  • Stolen from Bud Kerly
  • Last Christmas night
  • Commitment
  • Diversions
  • Room at the inn
  • So?
  • Grill steak like Bud does
  • Mogul dream
  • The groom
  • How it turns out
  • Not Sissy anymore
  • The scrabble players
  • By full moon and telescope.

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