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Down on the Sidewalk: Stories about Children and Childhood from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
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Front porches, family cars, playgrounds, swimming pools: from such familiar haunts of childhood, these stories look out on the world through young eyes and hearts. Wise beyond their years—or soon to be—Ruthie, Omar, J.J., and the other kids in these stories veer in and out of touching distance to hard lessons about trust, love, and mortality. However engaged or aloof, grownups are always nearby. Far-from-perfect emissaries to the realm of adulthood, they pose questions for children even as they offer answers.
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Daniel Curley
DANIEL CURLEY (1918-1988) was one of the editors of Accent and founded and edited its offspring Ascent from 1974 until his death in 1988. In addition to three novels and several collections of short stories, he wrote criticism, poetry, plays, and three books for children. A posthumous collection, The Curandero, was published in 1991.
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