| Barnstorm: Contemporary Wisconsin Fiction Contributor(s): Kadushin, Raphael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0299208540 ISBN-13: 9780299208547 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2005 Annotation: Though the best American writers live everywhere now, a popular fiction persists: our strongest literary voices are strictly bi-coastal ones. "Barnstorm sets out to disprove that cliche and to undermine another one as well: the sense of regional fiction as something quaint, slightly regressive, and full of local color. The stories in this collection capture our global reality with a ruthless, unaffected voice. Lorrie Moore's "The Jewish Hunter" is a dark romance that's by turns cynical and guileless. Mack Friedman catches the smoking feel of first love in his "Setting the Lawn on Fire," and Jesse Lee Kercheval's "Brazil" is a raucous, ultimately mournful road trip. For Jane Hamilton, Wisconsin is a gorgeous but bittersweet homecoming, and for Kelly Cherry, in her achingly elegiac "As It Is in Heaven," it's the hopeful new world, juxtaposed with a bleak, tweedy England. Dwight Allen's "The Green Suit" evokes the young man edging toward adulthood, in a New York that's as flamboyant as an opera, and Tenaya Darlington, in her "A Patch of Skin," constructs a pure horror story, because the horror of loneliness is something we all know. Together "Barnstorm's eclectic voices suggest that every coast now, even the Great Lakes' shores, are at the very center of our best, and truest, national literature. Not for sale in the United Kingdom. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Dewey: 813.010 |
| LCCN: 2004024340 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.08" W x 9.18" (0.99 lbs) 321 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Wisconsin - Cultural Region - Midwest - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest |