The Blondes of Wisconsin
Autor Anthony Bukoskien Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 apr 2021
In Bukoski’s interconnected tales, the heart seeks its due despite familial conflict, the challenges of maritime work, and the slow yet inexorable decline of dementia. Beautiful vignettes express transformative moments: tenderness that can turn a cardboard crown into gold and the faint ghosts of memories long forgotten. A tour-de-force, The Blondes of Wisconsin knows what love is—and what it means to lose it.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780299331146
ISBN-10: 0299331148
Pagini: 152
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10: 0299331148
Pagini: 152
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Recenzii
“An outstanding collection. Though loss haunts his characters, Bukoski’s stories are about the enduring beauty of the human spirit—as delicate as a dragonfly’s wing, as indelible as the landscape of the heart. I will not soon forget them or this transcendent book.”—Lee Zacharias, author of Across the Great Lake
“I loved this book. Bukoski is a terrific writer. These stories are absolutely original, funny, lyrical, and touching. The Superior, Wisconsin, presented by Bukoski is as varied, complex, and tragic as Joyce’s Dublin and for me opened up a world I’d never known existed.”—David Milofsky, author of A Milwaukee Inheritance
“Demonstrates that the creative vein Bukoski first mined in Children of Strangers can still unearth treasures. Against a bleak post-industrial backdrop, the stubborn, broken Polish Americans who feature in his stories persist and in spite of every setback continue to exude a transcendent hope.”—The Polish Review
“Bukoski never fails to deliver the characters and situations we need to be reminded of, or introduced to, or held to our faces like the mirrors that shine in many of his stories. . . . Sink into your own long-awaited reunion with Anthony Bukoski’s writing. Or meet it with wonder, for the first time. Either way, look in the mirror. Whoever you are, you are in that reflection, just as you are in these stories.”—Polish American Studies
“Take away everything else (save the Bible), and leave me a few dozen books by Walker Percy, Flannery O’Connor, Wendell Berry, John Mortimer and Anthony Bukoski, and I’ll be fine.”—Our Sunday Visitor
"Bukoski's stories excel in their palpable sense of place and of their characters' lot in life. They are painfully evocative of a once thriving region, their settings the gritty, uncelebrated places where life runs raw."—Star Tribune
“I loved this book. Bukoski is a terrific writer. These stories are absolutely original, funny, lyrical, and touching. The Superior, Wisconsin, presented by Bukoski is as varied, complex, and tragic as Joyce’s Dublin and for me opened up a world I’d never known existed.”—David Milofsky, author of A Milwaukee Inheritance
“Demonstrates that the creative vein Bukoski first mined in Children of Strangers can still unearth treasures. Against a bleak post-industrial backdrop, the stubborn, broken Polish Americans who feature in his stories persist and in spite of every setback continue to exude a transcendent hope.”—The Polish Review
“Bukoski never fails to deliver the characters and situations we need to be reminded of, or introduced to, or held to our faces like the mirrors that shine in many of his stories. . . . Sink into your own long-awaited reunion with Anthony Bukoski’s writing. Or meet it with wonder, for the first time. Either way, look in the mirror. Whoever you are, you are in that reflection, just as you are in these stories.”—Polish American Studies
“Take away everything else (save the Bible), and leave me a few dozen books by Walker Percy, Flannery O’Connor, Wendell Berry, John Mortimer and Anthony Bukoski, and I’ll be fine.”—Our Sunday Visitor
"Bukoski's stories excel in their palpable sense of place and of their characters' lot in life. They are painfully evocative of a once thriving region, their settings the gritty, uncelebrated places where life runs raw."—Star Tribune
Notă biografică
Anthony Bukoski is an award-winning writer and a fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. A member of the Polish American Historical Association, he is the author of the collections Time Between Trains, Children of Strangers, and Polonaise.
Descriere
These sixteen moving, intimate stories illuminate how devotion and degeneration ripples through a working-class Polish American community in the postindustrial Midwest. In each, the heart seeks its due despite familial conflict, the challenges of maritime work, and the slow yet inexorable decline of early-onset dementia.