A DIFFERENT PLAIN

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DIVIO Pioneers!/I was oh so long ago and yet Willa Cathers 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 anythingbutplain 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 comingofage leavetaking or coming home falling apart or finding love these stories represent contemporary fiction at its best from the high style of Richard Doolings Immortal Man to Kent Harufs softspoken Dancing from Ron Hansens My Communist to Jonis Agees earthy offbeat Binding the Devil. Original spirited and surprising these contemporary writings depict a modern world on the move and extend the tradition of great fiction from Nebraska into the twentyfirst century.//DIVDIVIn this fine new anthology Ladette Randolph. . . . an accomplished short story writer herself assembles a strong collection of stories all bound together by that familiar place on the national map that we call Nebraska. . . . There are some real gems in this book. . . . Taken in its entirety IA Different Plain/I reminds readers that there is a whole other American literature that is often overlooked by those on either coast.IBloomsbury Review/I/DIVDIVHere is a collection of short stories that shows promise to the avid reader of fiction. . . . The authors and stories presented in IA Different Plain/I should be appreciated not only for their relation to Nebraska but also for their relation to American contemporary fiction in general. . . . What becomes most important about IA Different Plain/I is its abillity to show just how diverse complicated and dramatic the Great Plains really are.INorth Dakota Quarterly/I/DIVDIVBeyond Willa Cather. That seems to be the current of thought running through IA Different Plain: Contemporary Nebraska Fiction Writers/I an absorbing collection of short stories from gifted authors (other than the most famous one) with Cornhusker connections. . . . Its a stellar Nebraska writing cast. . . . These stories sparkle with pure entertainment value. . . . Modern short stories tend to lean toward esoteric writers workshop head games. These were happy to report go against that grain. Youll feel you know these writers because they tell stories as the neighbors docomplete with sometimes explicit details that make us squirm in our comfy worlds. As a whole they all illuminate our Midwest helping us make sense of this complicated corner of paradise we call home.IMidwest Living/I/DIVDIVLadette Randolph the associate director and humanities editor at

Data Publikacji: 2004-09-01
Wymiary: 229 mm 146 mm 544 gr