Women & Other Animals
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Includes reading group guide.
Circus matinee -- Rhyme Game -- Gorilla girl -- Old dogs -- Eating Aunt Victoria -- Shotgun wedding -- The fishing dog -- The perfect lawn -- The sudden physical development of Debra Dupuis -- Sleeping sickness -- Celery fields -- Running -- Taking care of the O'Learys -- Shifting Gears -- The smallest man in the world -- Bringing home the bones.
An anthology of stories on human relationships. The story, Eating Aunt Victoria, traces the relationship of teenagers and their mother's lesbian lover, while in Bringing Home the Bones an accident in which a woman loses a leg improves her relations with her children.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 2002, c1999.
Year Published: 1999
Description: 198 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0743203070
9780743203074
SUBJECTS
Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Working class women -- Fiction.
Poor women -- Fiction.
Short stories.
Michigan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.