New York: Doubleday, 2000. First edition, 2000. Offwhite hardcover with red spine, gilt spine lettering, red endpapers, 203 pages, color illustrated dustjacket. The book is in fine condition, looks and feels new, with sound text block, good hinges, clean pages with no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and is also in fine, new-looking condition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa, And Other Stories

Publisher

Doubleday, New York

Publication Date

2000

Language

English

ISBN 10

0385498934

ISBN 13

9780385498937

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

Seller catalogs

Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History

About this title

Synopsis

Welcome to the curious world of Elizabeth Stuckey-French.  Her exuberant collection is peopled with characters who walk a thin line between reality and delusion, trying to break out of their molds and live a little. With stylish, wry writing, Stuckey-French creates intelligent, poignant, funny fiction.

Her characters--mostly Midwesterners trying to make sense of a changing world--are bizarre but strangely lovable.  They may lie to make their situations better, but the stories have a resounding emotional truth.

In "Junior," we meet a dog psychic who enlists her troubled niece in a moneymaking scheme.  In "Electric Wizard," grieving parents beg a teacher to invent poetry and pretend their dead son wrote it.  And in the title story, the mother of two young children drives east on a disordered impulse through a blizzard and picks up a gas station attendant along the way.  Several of these stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and literary reviews, where her work has received recognition and praise.

In Stuckey-French's striking fictional world, powerful emotional forces roil the outwardly placid surfaces of her characters' lives--our notions of "normal" are permanently altered, and yet these stories have a generosity of spirit that cannot fail to strike a chord with all of us.

About the Author

A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Elizabeth Stuckey-French has been awarded a James Michener Fellowship, and her stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, and other literary magazines. She teaches fiction writing at Florida State University in Tallahassee, where she lives with her husband and two daughters.

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