This Is Not the Tropics Stories

Name: This Is Not the Tropics Stories
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ISBN: 9780299215101

ISBN-10: 0299215105

ISBN-13: 9780299215101

Edition: 2005

Authors: Ladette Randolph

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The stories collected in This Is Not the Tropics come from the geographic center of a divided nation, and its protagonists evoke a split personality—one half submerged in America’s own diehard mythology, the other half searching to escape tradition. Together they form a portrait of the Plains that is both quirky and poignant. While the themes in this collection are familiar—love and betrayal, loneliness and regret, the needs of the individual versus the needs of the community—the stories themselves are startling and new. Whether it is the story of an eccentric, out-of-work accordion player; a woman ending a long marriage against the backdrop of a visit from her failing mother; a young girl…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 8/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 292
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


What She Knows


A Member of the Family


The Boy in the Band Uniform


The Shouting Woman


Miss Kielbasa


It's Cheaper to Live in the Dark


Hyacinths


The Girls


The Picture in Her Dream


Billy


This Is Not the Tropics


After Canaan


The Sensitive Man


Dill


The Blue Room