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Synopsis
Features stories that range across a spectrum of time and space, touching on the complexity of subcultures that make up Indiana life. In this work the contributors include Michael Martone, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Scott Russell Sanders, James Alexander Thom, Lee Zacharias, Ron Hansen, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, William H Gass, and Susan Neville.
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From Publishers Weekly
Each of the 11 stories in this uneven collection has some link, however tenuous, with Indiana, but outsiders waiting to discover the singularity of life in the Hoosier State will be disappointed. Nevertheless, some pieces stand well on their own. The book begins promisingly with Michael Martone's "Everybody Watching and the Time Passing Like That," as James Dean's high school drama teacher reminisces about her prize pupil ("I taught Jimmy to kiss. I taught Jimmy to die"), revealing indirectly that she is still in love with him. "Johnny Appleseed" by Susan Neville and "The Clarence Roberts Mysteries" by Michael Wilkerson appropriate, less successfully, other Hoosier legends. William H. Gass's "The First Winter of My Married Life" is a perceptive--if overwritten--account of how enforced closeness can destroy a marriage. Set on the eve of World War II, "I Can If I May" by James Alexander Thom is the highlight here, brilliantly capturing the small terrors of childhood--such as visits to the barber who is reputed to be a member of "something called the kay kay kay." The editors are short-story writers.
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- PublisherIndiana University Press
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0253365449
- ISBN 13 9780253365446
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages176
- EditorWilkerson Michael, Galyan Deborah
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