Holding Pattern

Title: Holding Pattern Author: Jeffery Renard Allen Fiction: 1689037 ISBN: 9781555975098 Publisher: Graywolf Press Published: 2008 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: First Edition Section: Fiction | Short Stories (single author) Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: The world of Jeffery Renard Allen's stunning short-story collection is a place like no other. A recognizable city, certainly, but one in which a man might sprout wings or copper pennies might fall from the skies onto your head. Yet these are no fairy tales. The hostility, the hurt, is all too human. The protagonists circle each other with steely determination: a grandson taunts his grandmother, determined to expose her secret past; for years, a sister tries to keep a menacing neighbor away from her brother; and in the local police station, an officer and pris