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Availability:In StockContributor:Rilla AskewPublish date:2009-03-15Pages:200
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806140285ISBN-10:806140283UPC:9780806140285Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, LiterarySize:7.90 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCAFQ1PZ4C

The strangeness of life and death play out in a fictional American small town

Lyla Mae Muncy meets her first love at Falls Creek Baptist Assembly Summer Bible Church Camp--and regrets it on their awkward first date. After years of being nagged about lumpy gravy, abused wife Lois pulls out a shotgun to wrap up breakfast her way. In a tender moment, an old man speaks from beyond the grave about his wife's final goodbye at his funeral. Experience, memory, and town-consciousness bind this collection of ten stories spanning twenty-five years in fictitious Cedar, Oklahoma. From the fears and discoveries of childhood, through the revelations of adolescence, into the troubled years of adulthood and decline into old age and death, Rilla Askew uncannily makes each of her characters' experiences our own.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806140285ISBN-10:806140283UPC:9780806140285Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, LiterarySize:7.90 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCAFQ1PZ4C
Askew, Rilla: - Rilla Askew, born and raised in eastern Oklahoma, is the award-winning author of four novels, The Mercy Seat, Fire in Beulah, Harpsong, and Kind of Kin, and a collection of linked stories, Strange Business. She teaches creative writing at the University of Oklahoma.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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