A Ruth Suckow Omnibus

A Ruth Suckow Omnibus
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Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Total Pages : 329
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ISBN-10 : 9780877452072
ISBN-13 : 0877452075
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Download or read book A Ruth Suckow Omnibus written by Ruth Suckow and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1988-08 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of ten short stories and one novella reintroduces a superb regional writer whose fiction, though firmly planted in the soil of the Midwest, stretches in significance to include all human drama. Despite her wide experience, Ruth Suckow became and remained a writer interested in small-town and small-city life. All her fiction contains deep and penetrating insights into the motivations of characters who are upheld by their dreams, memories of small-town childhoods, and the need to make sense of the contrast between past and present, idealism and practicality, conformity and individualism. These expressive, resonant stories will be welcomed by all new readers and by Ruth Suckow fans everywhere.


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