Ballet at the Moose Lodge: Stories (Drumlummon Contemporary Fiction Series) - Softcover

Patterson, Caroline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0996418318 ISBN 13: 9780996418317

Publisher: Drumlummon Institute, 2017

Synopsis

Caroline Patterson, best known as the editor of the Willa Award–winning anthology, Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart, is also the author of powerful short fiction. Her new collection, Ballet at the Moose Lodge, showcases sixteen of her extraordinary stories. In these stories, Patterson explores what it is to grow up female in the American West. As her narratives reveal the lives of travelers, homemakers, radio show announcers, mothers, teachers, dancers, shop clerks, and the subterranean world of girls, they take the reader from a ferry dock in Resurrection Bay, Alaska, to a two-room school in the Bitterroot Valley, from brash, backpacking college students to young new mothers on the edge, from the 1920s to the 1990s. In Ballet at the Moose Lodge, Patterson explores in delicate and searing prose the visible and invisible negotiations women make to navigate lives bound by the rugged western landscape.

About this title

About the Author:

Caroline Patterson grew up in Missoula, Montana, in the four-square Prairie-style house that was built by her greatgrandfather in 1906 after he won a case against the Great Northern Railway. She lives there today with her husband and her two college-aged children. In 2006, she published the anthology Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart, which won a Willa Award. Her work is appearing in upcoming anthologies including Montana Noir (Akashic Books, 2017) and Bright Bones: Innovative Montana Writing (Open Country Press, 2017), and she has published fiction in periodicals including Alaska Quarterly Review, Epoch, Salamander, Southwest Review, and Seventeen. In addition to teaching fiction at the University of Montana, she has received awards including the Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Fiction at Stanford University, Joseph Henry Jackson Prize from the San Francisco Foundation, a Vogelstein Foundation Award, as well as residencies from the Ucross Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is the executive director of the Missoula Writing Collaborative.

About this edition

• Publisher: Drumlummon Institute
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0996418318
• ISBN 13: 9780996418317
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284