Published 2014
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Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | Aurelie Sheehan |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PS3569.H392155 D46 2014 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 149 pages |
| Number of Pages | 149 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL27168388M |
| ISBN 10 | 0816531102 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780816531103 |
| LC Control Number | 2014000132 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 868886019 |
In Demigods on Speedway (University of Arizona Press, ), Aurelie Sheehan delivers a darkly humorous collection of stories on the haves and have-nots of recession-era Tucson, Arizona. The collection encompasses sixteen taut, interlinking stories broken into three sections—Journey, Story, Escape—which serve as thematic scaffolding. "In Demigods on Speedway, Aurelie Sheehan brings the Greek gods back to Earth and to the City of Tucson, with its high desert beauty, its spas and car-washes, its driving and Hanna, Alyssa and Artesia fill the long shifts of light and stars with longing, hope, self-regard and the desire for beauty, in all the noble and ignoble shapes that desire, and that beauty, can s: 4. Get this from a library! Demigods on speedway. [Aurelie Sheehan] -- "A collection of linked short stories set in modern-day Tucson, Arizona, featuring characters who struggle to make ends meet, find love, and find meaning in recession-era America. The characters are. Demigods on Speedway (Book): Sheehan, Aurelie: A collection of linked short stories set in modern-day Tucson, Arizona, featuring characters who struggle to make ends meet, find love, and find meaning in recession-era America.
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A collection of interrelated stories, set in Arizona, that aspires to a mythic resonance. Sheehan (Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories, , etc.) sets her fiction in Tucson (with the occasional glimpse toward Phoenix), where all of these stories and the characters within them seem like “part of a larger order,” though each also stands on its own. Men in dinosaur suits. A Norwegian freakazoid millionaire. Cats and catharsis, somber symbols, listless lives going off the rails. Pluck, persistence, and the pursuit of the tradition of Joyce's Dubliners, Demigods on Speedway is a po. Books shelved as gods-and-demigods: The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan, The House of Hades by Rick Riordan, Half-Blood by Jennifer L. Armentrout, The S. Deming Speedway - Deming Rd, Everson, Washington - Rated based on Reviews "Best racing in the northwest and produces some of the best /5().
