Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 400 pages) |
Contents |
Blackberry winter (1946) / Robert Penn Warren -- The petrified woman (1947) / Caroline Gordon -- The nest (1948) / James Still -- The men (1948) / Jane Mayhall -- Evenings at home (1948) / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Anthem of the locusts (1949) / Dean Cadle -- Lost land of youth (1950) / Jesse Stuart -- Fur in the hickory (1953) / Billy C. Clark -- The gift (1957) / Janice Holt Giles -- The Fourth at Getup (1960) / A.B. Guthrie Jr. -- The vireo's nest (1960) / Hollis Summers -- The little-known bird of the inner eye (1961) / Ed McClanahan -- Bare bones (1965) / Sallie Bingham -- White Anglo-Saxon protestant (1967) / Robert Hazel -- Play like I'm sheriff (1968) / Jack Cady -- The taste of ironwater (1969) / Jim Wayne Miller -- The world's one breathing (1970) / David Madden -- White rat (1975) / Gayl Jones -- The affair with Rachel Ware (1976) / Jane Stuart -- Maxine (1977) / Gurney Norman -- Rent control (1979) / Walter Tevis -- Residents and transients (1982) / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Yours (1982) / Joe Ashby Porter -- A fellow making himself up (1982) / Leon V. Driskell -- Winter facts (1983) / Mary Ann Taylor-Hall -- The fugitive (1984) / Richard Cortez Day -- The perfecting of the Chopin Valse No. 14 in E Minor (1985) / Sena Jeter Naslund -- Diary of a Union solder (1985) / Pat Carr -- That distant land (1986) / Wendell Berry -- If you can't win (1986) / James Baker Hall -- Bypass (1987) / Lisa Koger -- Homeland (1989) / Barbara Kingsolver -- Dr. Livingston's grotto (1989) / Normandi Ellis -- Belinda's world tour (1993) / Guy Davenport -- The way it felt to be falling (1993) / Kim Edwards -- The idea of it (1995) / Chris Holbrook -- Clouds (1996) / Paul Griner -- Barred owl (1996) / Chris Offutt -- Deferment (1998) / Dwight Allen -- Humming back yesterday (1999) / Crystal E. Wilkinson |
Summary |
With an introduction by Wade Hall Morris Grubbs has sifted through vintage classics, little-known gems, and stunning debuts to assemble this collection of forty stories by popular and critically acclaimed writers. In subtle and profound ways they challenge and overturn accepted stereotypes about the land their authors call home, whether by birth or by choice. Kentucky writers have produced some of the finest short stories published in the last fifty years, much of which focuses on the tension between the comforts of community and the siren-like lure of the outside world. Arranged chr |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Short stories, American -- Kentucky
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FICTION -- General.
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Manners and customs
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Short stories, American
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SUBJECT |
Kentucky -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
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Subject |
Kentucky
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Genre/Form |
Fiction
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Grubbs, Morris Allen, 1963-
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LC no. |
00012275 |
ISBN |
9780813143927 |
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0813143926 |
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9780813143934 |
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0813143934 |
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1299276938 |
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9781299276932 |
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