Runaway : a collection of stories / Mary Clearman Blew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blew, Mary Clearman, 1939-

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Series:

Short fiction series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

Montana--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Montana.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Blew, Mary Clearman, 1939- (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 201 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lewiston, Idaho : Confluence Press ; Lanham, Md. : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, [1990]

Summary:

The stories in "Runaway" cast incidents in the lives of women and men in contemporary Montana in a glare of prairie daylight as they struggle with the weather, physical adversities, and the tatters of the myth of the West that shapes and often distorts their vision. Trying to break a horse to harness, learning to pilot a plane, surviving the metamorphosis of the West into the global village, comic and grim, Blew's characters draw upon their inner toughness to form their tentative bonds with one another.

Contents:

College bound 1957

I beat the midget

Album

Forby and the Mayan maidens

Granddaughters

Stall warning

Bare trees

Alberta's story

A lesson in hunter safety

Kissing my elbow

Sample's crossing

Last night as I lay on the prairie

The Snowies, the Judiths

Runaway.

Notes:

"A James R. Hepworth book."

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy signed by the author on p. [5].

ISBN:

0917652770

9780917652776

OCLC:

21573086