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The Long White, 1988
Dilworth, Sharon
Stone, Robert, 1937-2015
1988
University of Iowa Press
Iowa City, Iowa
In the sparsely settled hills of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, winter's toughness is matched only by the animosity and affection of its inhabitants for each other and for the land that unnerves them. In The Long White, Michigan writer Sharon Dilworth evokes a place dominated by two great lakes whose power and ferocity influence the lives of every inhabitant. The particularities of place and character come together with the clarity and exactitude of a fresh snowfall that both veils and illuminates a landscape. Memorable in this collection is Dilworth's uncommon portrayal of the long-standing prejudice between the Finnish settlers and Indians in the Upper Peninsula as well as the unsettling rhythm of small-town life for members of each group. Dilworth also extends her storytelling to a southern island where a transplanted northerner intends to spend the rest of his life and to places common everywhere in America: an out-of-the way restaurant where a woman runs into her exhusband's new wife, a plane trip where a businessman talks to an Irish immigrant holding a box of photos of her deceased father, and a 4th of July picnic where a woman confronts her fear and her loneliness. Read singly these stories give the reader a snowflake's precise and individual pleasure read together they fall upon our consciousness like a long-awaited and welcome gift.
Iowa Short Fiction Award: 1988 Judge: Robert Stone
English
United States -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula
The Iowa Short Fiction Award & John Simmons Short Fiction Award
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Iowa Short Fiction Award
194 pages
Digitized.
Copyright © 1988 by Sharon Dilworth. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
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