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These are short stories about people who harbour relics from their past: a postcard from Vienna, the cigarette burns that scar a boy''s chest, a stolen USB pen, blue concentration camp numbers tattooed on a forearm, a man''s sense of his own body as his HIV overtakes him. Alice Zorn''s remarkable debut collection displays these talismans of personal history and transforms them into extraordinary stories about relationships between partners, family, friends, and strangers.

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      Publisher: NeWest Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/05/2009
      ISBN13: 9781897126387, 978-1897126387
      ISBN10: 1897126387

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      Book Synopsis

      These are short stories about people who harbour relics from their past: a postcard from Vienna, the cigarette burns that scar a boy''s chest, a stolen USB pen, blue concentration camp numbers tattooed on a forearm, a man''s sense of his own body as his HIV overtakes him. Alice Zorn''s remarkable debut collection displays these talismans of personal history and transforms them into extraordinary stories about relationships between partners, family, friends, and strangers.

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