Winnebago Mysteries and Other Stories - Softcover

Crone, Moira

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0914590693 ISBN 13: 9780914590699

Publisher: Fiction Collective 2, 1982

Synopsis

In this collection of seven short stories, Moira Crone presents fresh writings about women, love, and strength. "Kudzu" is a tale of a girl's childhood in the stranglehold of American life. "The Brooklyn Lie" deals with a young woman's sexuality and body. The title story explores relationships and women's issues through a series of letters and narratives.

About this title

About the Author:

Moira Crone is a widely published short story writer and novelist. A native of Eastern North Carolina she now resides in New Orleans. Her works have been published in numerous magazines, including: The New Yorker,Mademoiselle, Boston Sunday Globe Magazine, North American Review, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, New Orleans Review, and Habitus. Her non-fiction has appeared in The Oxford American, Beliefnet, Altnet, ( online) Family Circle, Working Mother, American Homestyle, and other websites and journals. She has been included in several anthologies, such as Best from the Ohio Review, 25th Anniversary Anthology, Smith Voices; Various Gifts, American Made, New Stories by Southern Women, Wide Awake in the Pelican State, Intersections, and, most recently, Best of LSU Fiction.

Review:

"Full of lovely surprises...Winnebago Mysteries is a pure delight" -- John Barth

"She expresses strength of feeling for both the form she has chosen, and for the people whose lives she celebrates, commemorates. -- Frederick Busch

"Unsentimental, hard hitting and charged, this is language at work." -- Andrei Codrescu

About this edition

• Publisher: Fiction Collective 2
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0914590693
• ISBN 13: 9780914590699
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136