Author

Publication

2003-04-01 - Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, USA, Minnesota

Language

English

Word Count

79,750 words, Guess

Page Count

319 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2003041246
  • Goodreads1120088
  • LibraryThing905491

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3551.G4 A65 2003

Description

No one is better than Jonis Agee at capturing the bone-deep desire and big-eyed longing of a hardscrabble, small-town life. This major collection, highlighting Agee’s astonishing literary achievements, includes powerful new stories and a comprehensive selection from her critically acclaimed books *Pretend We’ve Never Met*, *Bend This Heart*, *A .38 Special and a Broken Heart*, and *Taking the Wall*. Jonis Agee’s stories are as broad as their landscape, spanning the Great Lakes and traveling through the Great Plains on a straight shot to the heart. *The New York Times* refers to Agee’s short fiction as the ". . . clear-eyed reports of someone who sees things as they are, not as she would wish them to be" and each story in this collection is raw, deeply memorable, and dedicated to brutally introspective and truthful moments. In Acts of Love on Indigo Road, Agee’s characters continue to dream big and love deep while rushing headlong into the awareness that, finally, there are "only the dead to bear witness to what acts of love can do to the world."

Description

"This collection, highlighting Agee's literary achievements, includes twenty-five powerful new stories and a comprehensive selection from her critically acclaimed books of short fiction."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction.

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