"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.
General
Imprint: |
University of Oklahoma Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2022 |
First published: |
March 2009 |
Authors: |
Rilla Askew
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Dimensions: |
203 x 127 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
208 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8061-4028-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-8061-4028-3 |
Barcode: |
9780806140285 |
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