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Old Crimes
โ Scribed by Jill McCorkle
- Book ID
- 112175884
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- Year
- 2024
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 268 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781643755984
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โฆ Synopsis
Beloved author Jill McCorkle delivers a collection of masterful stories that are as complex as novels --deeply perceptive, funny, and tragic in equal measure--about crimes large and small.
McCorkle, author of the New York Times bestselling Life After Life and the widely acclaimed Hieroglyphics ("One of our wryest, warmest, wisest storytellers" --Rebecca Makkai), brings us a breathtaking collection of stories that offers an intimate look at the moments when a person's life changes forever.
Old Crimes delves into the lives of characters who hold their secrets and misdeeds close, even as the past continues to reverberate over time and across generations. And despite the characters' yearnings for connection, they can't seem to tell the whole truth. In "Low Tones," a woman uses her hearing impairment as a way to guard herself from her...
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