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from: University of Nebraska Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.00809782
EAN: 9780803239586
ISBN: 0803239580
Label: University of Nebraska Press
Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 398
Publication Date: September 01, 2004
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Sales Rank: 3631581
Studio: University of Nebraska Press
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O Pioneers! was oh so long ago, and yet Willa Cather's masterpiece has proven to be an enduring template for readers' notions of Nebraska writing. The short stories collected here, so richly various in style, theme, and subject matter, should put an end to any such plain thinking about writing from this anything-but-plain state.
Nebraska writers all, the authors explore the Midwest, a vastness of small towns, corn, cattle, football, and family businesses. They also venture far afield, to desolate western lives, crowded urban relationships, poignant couplings, comic families, and the worldly idiosyncrasies of characters everywhere. Whether about aging or coming-of-age, leave-taking or coming home, falling apart or finding love, these stories represent contemporary fiction at its best, from the high style of Richard Dooling's 'Immortal Man' to Kent Haruf's soft-spoken 'Dancing,' from Ron Hansen's 'My Communist' to Jonis Agee's earthy, offbeat 'Binding the Devil.' Original, spirited, and surprising, these contemporary writings depict a modern world on the move and extend the tradition of great fiction from Nebraska into the twenty-first century.
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Rating:  - Huskers write on . . .
This collection is something of a mixed bag, it's title being somewhat misleading. Here, a "contemporary Nebraska fiction writer" is just about any writer who has spent some time in Nebraska, either as a creative writing student or as a member of a creative writing faculty. Unlike Cather and Sandoz, whose work represents an intimate firsthand knowledge of living on the plains, these writers have been shaped more by an academic landscape, which has no particular geographic boundaries (perhaps that's ... Read More
Rating:  - A delightful read
When I think of Nebraska writers I am reminded of Wright Morris, Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather, and Ted Kooser, recently named Poet Laureate of the United States. I know there are other fine writers from Nebraska but with over 175,000 books published yearly in the U.S. it is sometimes difficult to find them unless they are specifically brought to your attention or have won a prestigious award or honor. That is why this collection is so important and worthwhile. This wonderful anthology brings together ... Read More
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