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" Skin / "
Kellie Wells.
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BL
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1046639
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b801009
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| Main Entry
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Wells, Kellie,1962-
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Skin /\ Kellie Wells.
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| Publication Statement
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Lincoln :: University of Nebraska Press,, ©2006.
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| Series Statement
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Flyover fiction
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1 online resource (243 pages).
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| ISBN
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080325640X
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: 1280466421
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: 6610466424
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: 9780803256408
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: 9781280466427
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: 9786610466429
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0803248245
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9780803248243
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| Contents
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Prologue: Spiritus Monday -- 1. Ivy Engel: Compression Scars -- 2. Charlotte McCorkle: Ink Spots -- 3. Rachel Loomis: Rachel in the Mirror -- 4. Ivy Engel: Baternoster -- 5. Charlotte McCorkle: Mrs. McCorkle's Ascent -- 6. Rachel Loomis: Ullalulla -- 7. Zero Loomis: Zero Overhead -- 8. Ruby Tuesday Loomis: Denomination: To Be Ruesday, Epizootic -- 9. Zero Loomis: Desire's Zoo -- 10. Ruby Tuesday Loomis: Evolution -- 11. Rachel Loomis: Jesus's Skin -- 12. Martin LeFavor: Graft -- 13. Rachel Loomis: Digesting the Father -- 14. Ansel Dorsett: Grasping the Constellation -- 15. Zero and Mrs. McCorkle: Random Acts -- 16. Ivy Engel: Ivy in Kansas -- 17. Ansel Dorsett: Sermon on the Prairie -- 18. Zero and Mrs. McCorkle: The Singing of Crocodiles -- 19. Ivy Engel: Ivy on Mars -- 20. Ruby and Martin: A Girl and a Boy, Some Trees -- 21. Rachel and Martin: Urticaria -- 22. Ansel and Ruby: Revelation Ranch -- Epilogue: Canticle for Matter.
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Turning loose a Midwestern species of magical realism on a small, God-haunted town in Kansas, Kellie Wells charms strangeness and wonder from what might be mistaken for "ordinary" life. Here is Martin LeFavor, convinced his father has been nabbed by a solicitous band of aliens in desperate need of skin; Charlotte McCorkle, a vexed visionary who believes she has helped her husband escape the flesh; Zero Loomis, plagued by sacrificial angels, the memory of his father, and a shadowy sexual identity; his sister Rachel, an amateur masseuse determined to settle accounts with the past, in particular with her lovingly violent father; Ruby Tuesday, Rachel's daughter, a budding oracle, the embodiment of possibility and prey to history; and, holding this tilted cosmos together, fifteen-year-old Ivy Engel, who carefully measures the borders of Self, advocates for neighborhood bats, and frets about the health of her friend Duncan, his harrowed body mapped and perhaps ravaged by subcutaneous scars. What happens when the spirit exceeds the limits of the skin? More troubling yet, what happens if it doesn't? These are the questions the inhabitants of What Cheer, Kansas, must finally face as their paths cross and recross in an ever more intriguing-and perhaps liberating-puzzle.
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Belief and doubt, Fiction.
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American Literature.
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Belief and doubt.
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English.
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FICTION-- Fantasy-- General.
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Languages Literatures.
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Kansas, Fiction.
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Kansas.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.6
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PS3623.E47S57 2006eb
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