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Shiny Objects, 1982
Benedict, Dianne, 1941-
Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
1982
University of Iowa Press
Iowa City, Iowa
This prize-winning collection of eight plainspoken stories is set in the raw, elemental sheep country of central and west Texas. Writing from her early absorption into the folk reality of Mexican Americans and southern whites, Dianne Benedict draws indelible people against a canvas alternately chilling and deceptively neutral. With great force and clarity, she deals with the winners and the losers, with the sinister and the comic, with grinding desolation and abrupt illuminations of innocence and grace. These stories reveal the intense inner life and revelation possible when people live so close to the bone of circumstance that ordinary material values fall away.
Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction: 1982 Judge: Raymond Carver
English
Mexican Americans
United States -- Texas
The Iowa Short Fiction Award & John Simmons Short Fiction Award
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Iowa Short Fiction Award
137 pages
Digitized.
Copyright © 1982 by Dianne Benedict. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
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