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Seven stories deal with a Christmas emergency, tornado warnings, a new friend, a wedding, a suicide, a new job, and a troubled teacher
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Exceptionally sensitive and deft, this collection of seven stories chronicles coming of age in the Minnesota of the 1960s. Stanton, a Yale Younger Poet ( Snow on Snow ) who heads the creative writing program at Indiana State University, brings to this otherwise familiar territory the talent to articulate the inchoate yearnings of youth. The narrator throughout is a likable and unnamed daughter of a large Catholic family that has recently moved from another state. Ordinary eventsbabysitting, working at Woolworth's, an aunt's wedding, a severe stormintroduce the balefula neighbor's accidental death, an exhibitionist, a ruptured friendship, a brother sent to Vietnam. Stanton's prose steers clear of pyrotechnics in favor of well-situated descriptive details. For example, just after the family's relocation, the narrator and her siblings play: "A mosquito whirred over our heads, and then we remembered that we had an upstairs window. An upstairs! Just like the children in the books about Scotland we were reading." The sole complaint to be lodged against these stories is that one wishes there were more of them to savor. Illustrated.
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- PublisherMilkweed Editions
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0915943336
- ISBN 13 9780915943333
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages106
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The Country I Come From: Stories
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Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 1988
ISBN 10: 0915943336
ISBN 13: 9780915943333
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Scholes, R. W. (illustrator). CB3 - A tight, clean, sound copy in black and white illustrated red and light blue wraps with very minor overall shelf wear plus there is some heavy plastic lamination covering the covers and showing some moderate overall rubbing plus there are the usual library stamps, and labels on the top outside paper edges and front endpaper. A collection of stories set in the upper Midwest and written with a sense of isolated lives that recieve spiritual comfort from home. The author is a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. 106p. Size: 6"x9". Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # SCW07805
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