David Means - Two Nurses Smoking Stories - 2022 [EN]

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"Two Nurses, Smoking by David Means" is a Unknown title in English, distributed as a EPUB file (2.0 MB). Written by David Means. The book spans approximately 175 pages with 47,428 words. Finalist for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize A new collection of stories by David Means, a visionary "master of the form" ( The Observer ). Two nurses meet in the hospital parking lot to share a cigarette. They flirt and imagine a future together. They tell stories of patients lost and patients saved, of the darkest corners of human suffering and the luminous moments that break through, even here, in the shadow of death. In David Means's virtuosic new collection, time unfolds in unexpected ways: a single, quiet moment swells with the echoes of a widower's complicated marriage; a dachshund,...

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CategoryBooks

LanguageEnglish (EN)

GenreFiction, Literature, Short Stories

QualityEPUB

Size2.0 MB

Pages175

ArchivedAug 29, 2026

Synopsis

He was still talking while in the car they pried open the cash box and saw the tightly bound stacks of green, neatly arranged, with tags on them that named the years they were earned. Hard-won money that he’d hoarded and hidden away from his creditors at the bank. That’s money that came out of sun and sky. No, that’s money that came from sunlight and air and dirt, nothing else. Back in Billy’s room that night, they were speculating about Uncle Rex. I think he’s sitting in that parlor in that cha