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A Ruth Suckow omnibus / by Ruth Suckow ; with a new introduction by Clarence A. Andrews.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Suckow, Ruth, 1892-1960.
- Series:
- Bur Oak Book
- Bur oak book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American.
- American fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1988.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of ten short stories and one novella reintroduces a superb regional writer whose fiction, though firmly planted in the soil of the Midwest, stretches in significance to include all human drama. Despite her wide experience, Ruth Suckow became and remained a writer interested in small-town and small-city life. All her fiction contains deep and penetrating insights into the motivations of characters who are upheld by their dreams, memories of small-town childhoods, and the need to make sense of the contrast between past and present, idealism and practicality, con
- Contents:
- Ruth Suckow / by Clarence A. Andrews
- Susan and the doctor
- Home coming
- A part of the institution
- Visiting
- The crick
- What have I?
- A great Mollie
- Three, counting the cat
- Midwest primitive
- The little girl from town
- The man of the family.
- Notes:
- Short stories reprinted from various periodicals.
- ISBN:
- 1-58729-232-7
- OCLC:
- 44953832
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