Different Plain Contemporary Nebraska Fiction Writers

Name: Different Plain Contemporary Nebraska Fiction Writers
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ISBN: 9780803290020

ISBN-10: 0803290020

ISBN-13: 9780803290020

Edition: 2004

Authors: Ladette Randolph, Mary Pipher

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O Pioneers!was oh so long ago, and yet Willa Cather's masterpiece has proven to be an enduring template for readers' notions of Nebraska writing. The short stories collected here, so richly various in style, theme, and subject matter, should put an end to any such plain thinking about writing from this anything-but-plain state. Nebraska writers all, the authors explore the Midwest, a vastness of small towns, corn, cattle, football, and family businesses. They also venture far afield, to desolate western lives, crowded urban relationships, poignant couplings, comic families, and the worldly idiosyncrasies of characters everywhere. Whether about aging or coming-of-age, leave-taking or coming…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 9/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 398
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Editor's note



Introduction



I demand to know where you're taking me



Playing horses



Watermelon days



The marijuana tree



The new year



Binding the Devil



Dancing



Crete



Bad family



The glass house



Sounds from the courtyard



Alternative lifestyle alert



Our passion



My communist



Bad Jews



'Orita on the road to Chimayo



St. Anthony and the fish



This is the last of the nice



Believing Marina



Anything you want, please



Why won't you talk to me?



Arcane high



Guys



Excerpt from The fig eater



Diary of an immortal man