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Miss Kansas City (Michigan Literary Fiction Awards)
Joan Frank
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Description for Miss Kansas City (Michigan Literary Fiction Awards)
Hardcover. Series: Michigan Literary Fiction Awards. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 535.
Miss Kansas City is the story of an improbable friendship, set in the tumultuous mid-80s dotcom California, where youthful greed and blinkered innocence arrive intertwined.
Friendless and reclusive, Alex Blue commutes two hours each way to a job that serves mainly as a place to bide time, until one day she meets the wealthy, worldly—and married—owner of a high-concept Bay Area lifestyle company. Meanwhile, the melancholy and closeted Morton Levi, yearning for a loving partner but stung by prior experience, lives a secret life outside the software information company he manages with a steady, efficient hand—the same company ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Michigan Literary Fiction Awards
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472115754
SKU
V9780472115754
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Ref
99-15
About Joan Frank
Joan Frank is the author of the story collection Boys Keep Being Born, which was both a Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award and Paterson Fiction Award finalist. Her stories appear in many journals and anthologies, including The Antioch Review, The Iowa Review, and Salmagundi. She is a MacDowell Colony and VCCA Fellow, Pushcart Prize nominee, recipient of a Barbara Deming ... Read more
Reviews for Miss Kansas City (Michigan Literary Fiction Awards)
Miss Kansas City is an utterly convincing portrait of a world at once specific to its time and place, and yet also universal. Both heartbreaking and redeeming. - Eileen Pollack, judge, Michigan Literary Fiction Awards ""...a marvelously satisfying story of friendship and love, and a braided exploration of relationships in our time and place. With precision, wit, and compassion, Joan ... Read more