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Human being songs : northern stories / Jean Anderson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Fairbanks, Alaska : University of Alaska Press, 2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781602233140
  • 1602233144
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Human being songsDDC classification:
  • 813/.54 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3551.N368
Online resources:
Contents:
Profligate -- Counting: a tale of enumeration -- Snobs -- Thaw -- The immediate jewel -- Blizzard -- Smallpox -- Air -- Power play -- Cats and dogs -- Contagion -- Human being songs.
Summary: The public image of Alaska for those who live elsewhere tends to be bound up with the outdoors. But while that's not necessarily false, it's a far from complete picture. This collection of stories shows us what we're missing: set in Alaska's cities and suburbs, homes and back roads, cars and kitchens and bedrooms, it offers not tales of adventures, but quietly powerful psychological dramas, introspective explorations of the private triumphs and failures of personal life played out in an extraordinary place.   Jean Anderson delicately balances the lyrical and the experimental to tell the stories of hardworking Alaskans-teachers, laborers, dental hygienists, artists-worrying over fairness and equity and meaning, falling in and out of love, and pondering elusive, long-dreamed-of goals. Powered by a rich empathy, Human Being Songs shows us life in Alaska as it's actually lived today-its successes, failures, and moments of transcendent beauty.
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The public image of Alaska for those who live elsewhere tends to be bound up with the outdoors. But while that's not necessarily false, it's a far from complete picture. This collection of stories shows us what we're missing: set in Alaska's cities and suburbs, homes and back roads, cars and kitchens and bedrooms, it offers not tales of adventures, but quietly powerful psychological dramas, introspective explorations of the private triumphs and failures of personal life played out in an extraordinary place.   Jean Anderson delicately balances the lyrical and the experimental to tell the stories of hardworking Alaskans-teachers, laborers, dental hygienists, artists-worrying over fairness and equity and meaning, falling in and out of love, and pondering elusive, long-dreamed-of goals. Powered by a rich empathy, Human Being Songs shows us life in Alaska as it's actually lived today-its successes, failures, and moments of transcendent beauty.

Profligate -- Counting: a tale of enumeration -- Snobs -- Thaw -- The immediate jewel -- Blizzard -- Smallpox -- Air -- Power play -- Cats and dogs -- Contagion -- Human being songs.

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