| Contents |
Hourglass -- World's end - Granna -- All the keys to all the doors -- The saltwater cure -- Ailments -- We show what we have learned -- The drop -- The Renaissance person tournament. |
| Summary |
"The literary, historic, and fantastic collide in these wise and exquisitely unsettling stories. From bewildering assemblies in school auditoriums to the murky waters of a Depression-era health resort, Beams's landscapes are tinged with otherworldliness, and her characters' desires stretch the limits of reality. Ingénues at a boarding school bind themselves to their headmaster's vision of perfection ; a nineteenth-century landscape architect embarks on his first major project, but finds the terrain of class and power intractable ; a bride glimpses her husband's past when she wears his World War II parachute as a gown ; and a teacher comes undone in front of her astonished fifth graders. As they capture the strangeness of being human, the stories in We Show What We Have Learned reveal Clare Beams's rare and capacious imagination—and yet they are grounded in emotional complexity, illuminating the ways we attempt to transform ourselves, our surroundings, and each other"-- From publisher. |
| Other edition |
Online version: Beams, Clare. We show what we have learned and other stories Wilmington : Lookout Books, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2016 9781940596150. |
| Subject |
Conduct of life -- Fiction.
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Boarding schools -- Fiction.
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Social classes -- Fiction.
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Husband and wife -- Fiction.
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Teachers -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Short stories.
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| Other Uniform title |
Short stories. Selections
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| Other title |
We show what we have learned and other stories |
| ISBN |
9781940596143
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1940596149
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