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New Stories from the Midwest
2012
Av Jason L. Brown, Shanie Latham
Häftad, 2013
377 kr
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New Stories from the Midwest presents a collection of stories that celebrate an American region too often ignored in discussions about distinctive regional literature. The editors solicited nominations from more than 300 magazines, literary journals, and small presses and narrowed the selection to …
Sightings
Stories
Av B.J. Hollars
Häftad, 2013
200 kr
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B. J. Hollars's debut short story collection offers ten thematically linked tales, all of which are out to subvert conventional notions of the Midwestern coming-of-age story. The stories feature an assemblage of Bigfoot believers, Civil War reenactors, misidentified Eskimos, and grief-stricken …
Tribal Knot
A Memoir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change
Häftad, 2013
259 kr
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Are we responsible for, and to, those forces that have formed us—our families, friends, and communities? Where do we leave off and others begin? In The Tribal Knot, Rebecca McClanahan looks for answers in the history of her family. Poring over letters, artifacts, and documents that span more than a …
Winesburg, Indiana
A Fork River Anthology
Av Zachary Tyler Vickers, William O'Rourke m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
216 kr
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In the mythical town of Winesburg, Indiana, there lives a cleaning lady who can conjure up the ghost of Billy Sunday, a lascivious holy man with an unusual fetish and a burgeoning flock, a park custodian who collects the scat left by aliens, and a night janitor learning to live with life's …
Leave the Dogs at Home
A Memoir
Häftad, 2015
200 kr
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Claire and Jim were friends, lovers, and sometimes enemies for 27 years. In order to get health insurance, they finally married, calling their anniversary the "It Means Absolutely Nothing" day. Then Jim was diagnosed with cancer. With ever-decreasing odds of survival, punctuated by arcs of false …
This Is Only a Test
Av B.J. Hollars, W. Scott Olsen m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
216 kr
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On April 27, 2011, just days after learning of their pregnancy, B. J. Hollars, his wife, and their future son endured the onslaught of an EF-4 tornado. There, while huddled in a bathtub in their Alabama home, mortality flashed before their eyes. With the last of his computer battery, Hollars began …
If You Need Me I'll Be Over There
Av Dave Madden, Paul Lisicky m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
200 kr
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After the Plains queered him, Dave Madden decided to return the favor. This outstanding collection of short stories tells the tale of a different kind of difference—one not set in the glittering lights of New York or Los Angeles, but in the grand and wide American Midwest. For Madden's characters, …
And Yet It Moves
Av Erin Stalcup, Tipahnie Yanique m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
265 kr
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In this exquisite debut short story collection, people with unusual jobs and lives embark on extraordinary journeys. A taboo romance breaks the laws of gravity. Albert Einstein writes letters to the daughter he abandoned. A female physicist meets Stephen Hawking in a bar. . . . In the closing …
American Tune
Häftad, 2016
235 kr
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While reluctantly accompanying her husband and daughter to freshman orientation at Indiana University, Nora Quillen hears someone call her name, a name she has not heard in more than 25 years. Not even her husband knows that back in the '60s she was Jane Barth, a student deeply involved in the …
Earth As It Is
Av Jan Maher, Susan Koppelman m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
249 kr
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It's the 1930s in Texas when Charlie Bader comes of age with urges he has struggled with since childhood and does not understand. After his new bride finds him wearing her own sexy lingerie and leaves him in disgust, he tries to move on. His efforts lead him to Chicago, where he stumbles on a …
Elegies for Uncanny Girls
Av Jennifer Colville, Melanie Rae Thon m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
233 kr
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Unsettling and perceptive, these short stories challenge American girlhood in all its delusions, conflicting messages, and treacherous terrain. Wide- and wise-eyed, mysterious girls leave their realities behind for strange and slightly unreal places at the edges of the country. Alternatively they …
Confessions of a Guilty Freelancer
Häftad, 2012
361 kr
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William O'Rourke's singular view of American life over the past 40 years shines forth in these short essays on subjects personal, political, and literary, which reveal a man of keen intellect and wide-ranging interests. They embrace everything from the state of the nation after 9/11 to the author's …
