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    A Study Guide for Elizabeth McCracken's "Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry"
    A Study Guide for Elizabeth McCracken's "Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry"
    A Study Guide for Elizabeth McCracken's "Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry"
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    A Study Guide for Elizabeth McCracken's "Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry"

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    A Study Guide for Elizabeth McCracken's "Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535824736
    A Study Guide for Elizabeth McCracken's "Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry"

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      A Study Guide for Elizabeth McCracken's "Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry" - Gale

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      Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry

      Elizabeth McCracken

      1993

      Introduction

      In the short story, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry, Elizabeth McCracken introduces a larger-than-life character, Aunt Helen Beck, a woman in her eighties who has traveled the country for most of her life, showing up at the homes of distant relatives who have only vaguely heard of her, if they have at all. She arrives at an island in Seattle's Puget Sound to stay with a great nephew and his wife. In the course of her visit, they learn to put up with the trials of having their lives invaded by an outspoken aged relative. At the same time, their suspicions grow that she is actually not who she says she is. Each character is rendered imaginatively as a familiar type, but also as a unique individual. McCracken tells the story with an unerring eye for details and a subtle sense of humor that recognizes the underlying strangeness of ordinary modern life.

      Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry was published in McCracken's 1993 short story collection of the same name. This was her first story collection, published when the author was just a few years out of college, and it helped to establish McCracken as one of the most gifted young writers of her generation.

      Author Biography

      Elizabeth McCracken was born in 1966. Her father, Samuel McCracken, was a writer and editor and an assistant to the provost of Boston University, where her mother, Natalie, also worked. McCracken attended Boston University, where she graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in English, both in 1988. She then attended the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, taking an M.F.A. in 1990. She earned a Master of Science degree in library and information science from Drexel University

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