By the age of thirty, Weldon Kees (1914-55) was a poet, journalist,
musician, painter, photographer, and short story writer living in
New York City. Despite a contract for a forthcoming novel, however,
he stopped writing fiction, moved to San Francisco, and worked as
an artist and filmmaker. On July 18, 1955, his car was found on the
Golden Gate Bridge, and he has not been seen since.
These stories by Kees, predominantly set in Depression-era
mid-America, feature bleak, realistic settings and characters
resigned to their meager lives. The owner of an auto parts store
occasionally "sells" his sister Betty Lou to interested patrons; a
cryptic message in library books indicates the yearnings of a
silenced patron; a young woman taking tickets at the Roseland
Gardens futilely dreams of escape from the future she sees for
herself; and an old man carefully saves his money to fulfill the
requirements of a chain letter only to be disappointed by a
spiteful daughter-in-law. Many of these stories are set in the
Nebraska of Kees's youth, and they are written from a Midwestern
sensibility: keenly observant, darkly humorous, and absurdly
fantastic.
In this new edition, Dana Gioia has added three stories to the
fourteen gathered in the first edition, "The Ceremony and Other
Stories," "The New York Times" named that first edition, published
in 1984, a notable book of the year.
General
| Imprint: |
Bison Books
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2002 |
| First published: |
October 2002 |
| Authors: |
Weldon Kees
|
| Editors: |
Dana Gioia
|
| Introduction by: |
Dana Gioia
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade / Trade
|
| Pages: |
172 |
| Edition: |
2 Rev Ed |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8032-7806-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-8032-7806-3 |
| Barcode: |
9780803278066 |
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