Women on the Run - Hale, Janet Campbell
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"Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press" Janet Campbell Hale's spare, honest writing and unique realism create haunting worlds reflecting the difficulties of the women's lives in her stories - women on the run. These six stories focus on the transition of cultural roots and a loss of sense of community: women who find themselves involved in one night stands leading to pregnancy in an era preceding abortion, substance abuse or gambling in an effort to flee a harsh life of poverty, and the bitter rejection felt by the aged in a society no longer respecting extended family ties.…mehr

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"Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press" Janet Campbell Hale's spare, honest writing and unique realism create haunting worlds reflecting the difficulties of the women's lives in her stories - women on the run. These six stories focus on the transition of cultural roots and a loss of sense of community: women who find themselves involved in one night stands leading to pregnancy in an era preceding abortion, substance abuse or gambling in an effort to flee a harsh life of poverty, and the bitter rejection felt by the aged in a society no longer respecting extended family ties.
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Janet Campbell Hale is a member of the Coeur d'Alene tribe of northern Idaho and is also of Cree and Kootenay descent. Hale is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley where she studied law for two years. She has an M.A. in English from the University of California at Davis.