Strange Business - Couverture souple

Askew, Rilla

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0806140283 ISBN 13 : 9780806140285

Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 2009

Synopsis

The strangeness of life and death play out in a fictional American small town

Lyla Mae Muncy meets her first love at Falls Creek Baptist Assembly Summer Bible Church Camp--and regrets it on their awkward first date. After years of being nagged about lumpy gravy, abused wife Lois pulls out a shotgun to wrap up breakfast her way. In a tender moment, an old man speaks from beyond the grave about his wife's final goodbye at his funeral. Experience, memory, and town-consciousness bind this collection of ten stories spanning twenty-five years in fictitious Cedar, Oklahoma. From the fears and discoveries of childhood, through the revelations of adolescence, into the troubled years of adulthood and decline into old age and death, Rilla Askew uncannily makes each of her characters' experiences our own.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rilla Askew is a novelist, essayist, and short-story writer known for her award-winning historical fiction. Fire in Beulah, her novel about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, received the American Book Award. Her Dust Bowl novel, Harpsong, received the Oklahoma Book Award, and her essay collection, Most American: Notes from a Wounded Place, was long-listed for a PEN America Literary Award. She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. To learn more about her work, visit rillaaskew.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Oklahoma Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0806140283
• ISBN 13: 9780806140285
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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