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Twists on the theme of innocence--innocence abandoned, stolen, regained, revisited--and realistic characters confronting emotionally changed situations mark a collection of stories set in the American West and Midwest
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Set in Midwestern states, these 10 stories by the winner of the 1988 Raymond Carver Short Fiction Award offer perspectives on lives that encounter and surmount life's obstacles. This endurance is explicit in a strongly realized story, "The Barrel Racer," centering on two womenone an abandoning wife who visits her middle-aged brother Henry in Medicine Bow, Wyo., the other a woman who trains barrel horses but forgoes her independence for Henry. In "Trinity," a man struggles with his wife even after her death, "to bring their views into the same latitudinal line," while he rejects the offer of a living woman. Sexuality is a commodity in "Open Twenty-Four Hours," where a pubescent eighth-grader is the object of her stepfather's concern. In the title narrative, the consonance between myth and reality is acted out with lyrical undertones in a love story set in a seedy menage. In these tales, many of them imbued with the ambiance of this country's heartland, the strivings of ordinary people are viewed in an empathetic, if sometimes enigmatic, dimension.
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- PublisherUniversity of Iowa Press
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0877452202
- ISBN 13 9780877452201
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages129
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Hardcover first edition - First printing. A collection of ten stories set in Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska and in other western or midwestern states, these stories have grit and authenticity as they explore innocence lost, abandoned, stolen and occasionally regained. Winner of John Simmons Short Fiction Award, selected by Robert Stone. 129 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (tiny remainder dot). Seller Inventory # 84871
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. This is a copy of the 1988 John Simmons Short Story Award Winner. Selected by Robert Stone who says "Michael Pritchett's haunting and austere stories linger a long time in the mind. His characters seem seem to be exploring their way through a world of clues and secrets and his writing has such persuasive force that the reader shares in their explorations, coming to understanding as they do. His style is strong and unpretentious, often capable of real unforced poetry. His images seem compounded naturally out of the weather of his people's lives.". Seller Inventory # 7342
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