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The Cost of Living: Stories

Poissant, David James

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2011, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: English and Comparative Literature.
The Cost of Living: Stories is a collection of thematically linked short fiction that explores the drama of the everyday in the lives of children, women, and men. In fifteen stories, The Cost of Living illuminates life in and beyond the contemporary urban and suburban southeastern United States. Characters, plagued by hardships of their own making, struggle with relationships and the demands of family. Animals, too, find their way into the fiction, as characters intrude on the natural world. By turns comic, dramatic, and frightening, and written in modes both realist and experimental, this collection gives voice to the heroes of the conflicts that often go unnoticed in our own backyards.
Michael Griffith, MFA (Committee Chair)
Jennifer Glaser, PhD (Committee Member)
Leah Stewart, MFA (Committee Member)
282 p.

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  • Poissant, D. J. (2011). The Cost of Living: Stories [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1305644279

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Poissant, David. The Cost of Living: Stories. 2011. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1305644279.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Poissant, David. "The Cost of Living: Stories." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1305644279

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)