Memoirs are as varied as human emotion and experience, and those published in the distinguished American Lives Series run the gamut. Excerpted from this series (called "splendid" by Newsweek) and collected here for the first time, these dispatches from American lives take us from China during the Cultural Revolution to the streets of New York in the sixties to a cabin in the backwoods of Idaho. In prose as diverse as the stories they tell, writers such as Floyd Skloot, Ted Kooser, Peggy Shumaker, and Lee Martin, among many others, open windows to their own ordinary and extraordinary…mehr
Memoirs are as varied as human emotion and experience, and those published in the distinguished American Lives Series run the gamut. Excerpted from this series (called "splendid" by Newsweek) and collected here for the first time, these dispatches from American lives take us from China during the Cultural Revolution to the streets of New York in the sixties to a cabin in the backwoods of Idaho. In prose as diverse as the stories they tell, writers such as Floyd Skloot, Ted Kooser, Peggy Shumaker, and Lee Martin, among many others, open windows to their own ordinary and extraordinary experiences. John Skoyles tells how, for his Uncle Fred, a particular "Hard Luck Suit" imparted misfortune. Brenda Serotte describes a Turkish grandmother who made her living reading palms, interpreting cups, and prescribing poultices for the community. In "Son of Mr. Green Jeans," Dinty W. Moore views fatherhood through the lens of pop culture. Janet Sternburg's Phantom Limb muses on the dilemmas of a child caring for a parent. Whether evoking moments of death or disease, in family or marriage, history, politics, religion, or culture, these glimpses into singular American lives come together in a richly textured, colorful patchwork quilt of American life.
Alicia Christensen is the Bison Books editor at the University of Nebraska Press. Tobias Wolff is the author of numerous books, including the memoirs This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War; the novel Old School; and, most recently, Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories . Contributors: Laurie Alberts, Marvin V. Arnett, Charles Barber, Mary Felstiner, Eli Hastings, Sonya Huber, Jonathan Johnson, Ted Kooser, Dinah Lenney, Aaron Raz Link, Lee Martin, Dinty W. Moore, Hilda Raz, Mimi Schwartz, Brenda Serotte, Fan Shen, Peggy Shumaker, Natalia Rachel Singer, Floyd Skloot, John Skoyles, and Janet Sternburg.
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Preface Introduction "Long Live the Red Terror!" Fan Shen Moving Water, Tucson Peggy Shumaker Winter 1997 Laurie Alberts The Weight of Spoons Charles Barber Hard Luck Suit John Skoyles Fortuna Brenda Serotte The Boys of Summer Marvin V. Arnett Excerpt from "Winter" Ted Kooser Son of Mr. Green Jeans: A Meditation on Missing Fathers Dinty W. Moore Good, Alright, Fine Eli Hastings Acting Dinah Lenney And There Fell a Great Star Natalia Rachel Singer Not Coming Out Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz Excerpt from Phantom Limb Janet Sternburg Alternatives, 1979 Mary Felstiner Excerpt from "The Second Trimester" Jonathan Johnson A Measure of Acceptance Floyd Skloot The New Kitchen Mimi Schwartz One I Love, Two I Love Lee Martin Excerpt from "The Promise of Power" Sonya Huber Source Acknowledgments List of Contributors
Preface Introduction "Long Live the Red Terror!" Fan Shen Moving Water, Tucson Peggy Shumaker Winter 1997 Laurie Alberts The Weight of Spoons Charles Barber Hard Luck Suit John Skoyles Fortuna Brenda Serotte The Boys of Summer Marvin V. Arnett Excerpt from "Winter" Ted Kooser Son of Mr. Green Jeans: A Meditation on Missing Fathers Dinty W. Moore Good, Alright, Fine Eli Hastings Acting Dinah Lenney And There Fell a Great Star Natalia Rachel Singer Not Coming Out Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz Excerpt from Phantom Limb Janet Sternburg Alternatives, 1979 Mary Felstiner Excerpt from "The Second Trimester" Jonathan Johnson A Measure of Acceptance Floyd Skloot The New Kitchen Mimi Schwartz One I Love, Two I Love Lee Martin Excerpt from "The Promise of Power" Sonya Huber Source Acknowledgments List of Contributors
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