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Barnstorm: Contemporary Wisconsin Fiction
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Paperback. Though the best American writers live everywhere now, a popular fiction persists: the strongest literary voices are strictly bi-coastal ones. Barnstorm sets out to disprove that cliche and to undermine another one as well: the sense of regional fiction as something quaint, slightly regressive, and full of local color. Editor(s): Kadushin, Raphael. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 449.
Though the best American writers live everywhere now, a popular fiction persists: our strongest literary voices are strictly bi-coastal ones. Barnstorm sets out to disprove that cliche and to undermine another one as well: the sense of regional fiction as something quaint, slightly regressive, and full of local color. The stories in this collection capture our global reality with a ruthless, unaffected voice. Lorrie Moore's ""The Jewish Hunter"" is a dark romance that's by turns cynical and guileless. Mack Friedman catches the smoking feel of first love in his ""Setting the Lawn on Fire,"" and Jesse Lee Kercheval's ""Brazil"" is ... Read more
Though the best American writers live everywhere now, a popular fiction persists: our strongest literary voices are strictly bi-coastal ones. Barnstorm sets out to disprove that cliche and to undermine another one as well: the sense of regional fiction as something quaint, slightly regressive, and full of local color. The stories in this collection capture our global reality with a ruthless, unaffected voice. Lorrie Moore's ""The Jewish Hunter"" is a dark romance that's by turns cynical and guileless. Mack Friedman catches the smoking feel of first love in his ""Setting the Lawn on Fire,"" and Jesse Lee Kercheval's ""Brazil"" is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299208547
SKU
V9780299208547
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About
Raphael Kadushin is humanities editor at the University of Wisconsin Press, editor of Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing, and a contributing editor at Bon Appetit magazine. He contributes to a wide range of publications - among them National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, Conde Nast Traveler, Town & Country Travel, and Out Traveler - and his work appears in a variety ... Read more
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