| Wide Blue Yonder Contributor(s): Thompson, Jean (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743229584 ISBN-13: 9780743229586 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $21.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2003 Annotation: In her first novel in 15 years, the author of "Who Do You Love?" once again explores the mysteries of life and love, tracing the frustrations and passions of four people during a summer of blazing heat and fearsome storms in Springfield, Illinois. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Small Town & Rural |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001034157 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.95 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From National Book Award-finalist Jean Thompson comes a compelling, highly charged novel about a family ruled by the weather, the drastic changes that hit their atmosphere, and a midwestern town where chaos doesn't reign -- it pours. Something big is headed for Springfield, Illinois, a place where weather of all kinds -- climatic, emotional, and even metaphysical -- tends to come in extremes. It is the summer of 1999, and through the long months of blazing heat and fearsome tempests, a quirky quartet of locals will try to ride out the stormy season, each in their own way. Uncle Harvey believes he is the embodiment of the Weather Channel's Local Forecast, even though all meteorological evidence points to the contrary. His niece, Josie, is fixed with a different predicament -- she's young and pretty, with nowhere to go except into deep trouble. Her mother, Elaine, lives under a fa ade of cheerful efficiency, desperately masking a far more urgent quest. And all of them are caught in the path of the loner Rolando -- a human cyclone from the West, fueled by a boundless rage and determined to make Springfield the focal point of his wrath. |
Contributor Bio(s): Thompson, Jean: - Jean Thompson is a novelist and short story writer. Her works include the novels A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl, She Poured Out Her Heart, The Humanity Project, The Year We Left Home, City Boy, Wide Blue Yonder, The Woman Driver, and My Wisdom and the short story collections The Witch and Other Tales Re-Told, Do Not Deny Me, Throw Like a Girl, Who Do You Love (a National Book Award finalist), Little Face and Other Stories, and The Gasoline Wars. Thompson's short fiction has been published in many magazines and journals, including the New Yorker, and anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. Thompson has been the recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, among other accolades, and has taught creative writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Reed College, Northwestern University, and other colleges and universities. She lives in Urbana, Illinois. |