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Bear down, bear north : Alaska stories / Melinda Moustakis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moustakis, Melinda, 1982-
- Series:
- Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
- The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wilderness areas--Alaska--Fiction.
- Wilderness areas.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Alaska--Fiction.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Survival--Fiction.
- Survival.
- Short stories.
- Alaska--Fiction.
- Alaska.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (174 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In her debut collection, Melinda Moustakis brings to life a rough-and-tumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories. Born in Alaska herself to a family with a homesteading legacy, Moustakis examines the near-mythological accounts of the Alaskan wilderness that are her inheritance and probes the question of what it means to live up to larger-than-life expectations for toughness and survival. The characters in Bear Down, Bear North are salt-tongued fishermen, fisherwomen, and hunters, scrappy storytellers who put themselves in the path of destruction-sometimes a harsh
- Contents:
- Trigger
- The mannequin in Soldotna
- The weight of you
- Us kids
- This one isn't going to be afraid
- Point MacKenzie
- Miners and trappers
- Bite
- Some other animal
- Mr. Fur Face needs a girlfriend
- They find the drowned
- What you can endure
- The last great Alaskan lumberjack show.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-26793-4
- 9786613267931
- 0-8203-4189-4
- OCLC:
- 830023003
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