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This short story collection offers ten thematically linked tales, all of which are out to subvert conventional notions of the midwestern coming-of-age story. The stories feature an assemblage of Bigfoot believers, Civil War reenactors, misidentified Eskimos, and grief-stricken clowns, among other ou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hollars, B. J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social isolation.
Outcasts.
Manners and customs.
Bildungsromans.
FICTION > Short Stories (single author)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Isolement social > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Marginaux > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Short stories.
Social isolation > Fiction.
Outcasts > Fiction.
Middle West.
Midwest (États-Unis) > Moeurs et coutumes > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Middle West > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Fiction.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:This short story collection offers ten thematically linked tales, all of which are out to subvert conventional notions of the midwestern coming-of-age story. The stories feature an assemblage of Bigfoot believers, Civil War reenactors, misidentified Eskimos, and grief-stricken clowns, among other outcasts incapable of finding a place in their worlds. In these stories, we can join a family on a very 21st-century trip along the Oregon Trail, watch as a boy builds a brother from a vacuum cleaner, follow a sandlot baseball team as it struggles to overcome an invasion by its Native American neighbors, and experience how a high school basketball squad takes to Sasquatch roaming its court. This genre-bending collection charts a different pathway through the thickets of life on the road to adulthood.
Physical Description:1 online resource (180 pages).
ISBN:9780253008466

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