The Alice stories / Jesse Lee Kercheval.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kercheval, Jesse Lee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

227 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2007]

Summary:

Wisconsin is not where Alice, a girl raised in Florida, meant to end up. But when she falls in love with Anders Dahl, a descendant of Norwegian farmers born for generations in the same stone farmhouse, she realizes that to love Anders is to settle into a life in Wisconsin in the small house they buy before their daughter, Maude, is born. Together, Alice and Anders move forward into a life of family, friends, and the occasional troubled student until they face their biggest challenge. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Jesse Lee Kercheval's "The Alice Stories" tells the tale of a family: the pain of loss and the importance of the love of friends in the midst of turmoil. As timely as the news yet informed by rich humor and a deep understanding of human character, the interlinked "Alice Stories" form a luminous tale of family life.

Contents:

Alice in dairyland

Damage

Honors

A story set in Germany

Beasts

New rooms

Scarce

Mary

Family portrait

Night dogs.

ISBN:

9780803211353

080321135X

OCLC:

122261968

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