Barnstorm : contemporary Wisconsin fiction / edited by Raphael Kadushin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kadushin, Raphael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Wisconsin.

American fiction.

Short stories, American--Wisconsin.

Short stories, American.

Wisconsin--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Wisconsin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press/Terrace Books, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 cliché 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.

Contents:

Egyptian / Margaret Benbow

Brazil / Jesse Lee Kercheval

Logjam / Ron Wallace

Touching bottom / John Hildebrand

Setting the lawn on fire / Mack Friedman

As it is in heaven / Kelly Cherry

Mission work / Anthony Bukoski

The Jewish hunter / Lorrie Moore

It's freezing here in Milwaukee / J.S. Marcus

A patch of skin / Tenaya Darlington

Unknown donor / Judith Claire Mitchell

Dropping the baby / Ann Shaffer

The short history of a prince / Jane Hamilton

The green suit / Dwight Allen

Happy / Dean Bakopoulos.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9786612424236

9781282424234

1282424238

9780299208530

0299208532

OCLC:

832462350