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David’s short story story Things We Knew When the House Caught Fire was first published in Little Engines, followed by Best American Nonrequired Reading and Best Christian Short Stories before being broadcast on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts.
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All about Things We Knew When the House Caught Fire (in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 - EGGERS) by David Drury. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers.
Oct 10, 2003 · Things We Knew When the House Caught Fire by David Drury. The story of some neighborhood kids that didn't fit in but didn't seem to care, either. It was memorable because it did manage to capture that mystique about childhood and the fog of our memories from those times.
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Oct 10, 2003 · There are skilled forays into fiction, like David Drury’s “Things We Knew When the House Caught Fire,” one of several items here that deals alarmingly well with the cruelty of children to other children.
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Feb 19, 2006 · from things we knew when the house caught fire. short by drury. They were the bad neighbors. That was the thinking. But let me back up. here is a list of things: BMW (him) Sport utility vehicle (her) Franchise coffee (whole bean, bought by the pound, kept in the freezer)
In the short story, “Things We Knew When the House Caught Fire”, bigotry is represented when a wealthy, picture- perfect suburbia loses its coherence once a family named the Bainers move in. The Bainers display the absolute juxtaposition of everything the community epitomizes: “…a cozy, “high-income” community (…) the schools all ...
Things We Knew When the House Caught Fire by David Drury – Selected Shorts & Symphony Space Online Store. Performed by Keith Szarabajka. A provocative comic gem about a genteel California suburb disrupted by the arrival of an untidy, disruptive family.
