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Final Vinyl Days : And Other Stories by Jill McCorkle (1998, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN-101565122046
ISBN-139781565122048
eBay Product ID (ePID)235497

Product Key Features

Book TitleFinal Vinyl Days : and Other Stories
Number of Pages212 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicShort Stories (Single Author)
Publication Year1998
GenreFiction
TypeTextbook
AuthorJill Mccorkle
FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight12 Oz
Item Length7.2 in
Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN97-050540
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Edition DescriptionTeacher's edition
SynopsisWhen 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberPS3563.C3444F56 1998