Scavengers - and Other Stories (Hardcover)

The stories in "Scavengers" are about people fighting to gain or hold onto some good. For the six-year-old heroine of ""Dixie Lee"" it is innocence, threatened by her kidnapper. Gilda, the young English teacher of ""Scavengers,"" disappointed in love, wants a baby by artificial insemination. Middleton, the bumbling and incorrigible romantic of ""Following Keats,"" seeks love in Italy. In ""Fish or Fowl"" Isabel Larkin, lost in La-La land, seems uncertain about her identity--but not about doing what is right. Jeff Franklin, in ""This Day in Yankee History,"" tries mightily to convey his respect and liking for a distrustful young black boy he meets at the ballpark. These and others--a handsome alcoholic, a sex-obsessed homeless man, an ambitious cop, a professor drawn toward violence, a guilt-ridden man with a snuff movie--all struggle to possess a small part of what they have lost, thrown away, or never had.

General

Imprint:	Iuniverse, Inc.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2004
First published:	March 2004
Authors:	Barclay Bates
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-0-595-66285-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories Promotions
LSN:	0-595-66285-4
Barcode:	9780595662852

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