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A Place of sense : essays in search of the Midwest / edited by Michael Martone ; photographs by David Plowden.
LIBRA - Special F355 .P58 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Bur oak original
- Bur oak original.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs.
- Middle West--Description and travel.
- Middle West.
- Middle West--Social life and customs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 144 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press for the Iowa Humanities Board, 1988.
- Contents:
- Under the sign of Wonder Bread and Belmont Caskets / Michael J. Rosen
- The flatness / Michael Martone
- A writer's sense of place / Louise Erdrich
- The way the country lies / Douglas Bauer
- American Gothic / David Hamilton
- If you can talk to a guy / Jane Staw and Mary Swander
- Grandma's backbone, Dougie's ankles / Gary Comstock
- Letting go : the virtue of vacant ground / Janet Kauffman.
- ISBN:
- 0877452113
- 0877452172
- OCLC:
- 17916663
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