CREATURES OF HABIT.
by McCorkle, Jill
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 1565122569
- ISBN 13
- 9781565122567
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Chapel Hill, NC:: Algonquin Press,, 2001.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A collection of twelve short stories set in her fictional home town of Fulton, North Carolina - each story matches people with animals - "In Billy Goats, Fulton's herd of seventh graders cruises the summer nights, peeking into parked cars, maddening the town madman. In Dogs, a single mother who works for a veterinarian compares him - unfavorably - with his patients. And, in the final story, Fish, a grieving daughter remembers her father's empathy for the ugliest of all fishes." Small format. 240 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84561
- Title
- CREATURES OF HABIT.
- Author
- McCorkle, Jill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1565122569
- ISBN 13
- 9781565122567
- Publisher
- Algonquin Press,
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill, NC:
- Date Published
- 2001.
- Keywords
- women authors, southern authors,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short story collections;
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