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Lent: the Slow Fast, 1990
Flythe, Starkey, Jr., 1935-2013
Godwin, Gail
1990
University of Iowa Press
Iowa City, Iowa
In these riveting stories, the individual is thrown into the larger, insensitive space of war, religion, or so-called progress, where persistence or survival must be supported on the smaller and sometimes socially inappropriate measure of personal beliefs and desires. In the title story, the woman discovers success, conviviality, and spiritual pleasure in a church family only to find her own, smaller family is falling apart. In "Walking, Walking," an old woman sees the ghost of her son and wonders why in life he could not do right and why now, in death, he can't rest. The deception of the modern world, of progress and real estate values, enables her to triumph over the schemes of an undertaker and lead her son to rest. Ugly strength overwhelms intelligence and hope in "The Ice Fisher," as a woman defies her husband to enroll her son in the protection and opportunity of a choir school. In all the stories, enlightened selfishness takes on heroic quality -- these people defy and resist, determine and persist, regardless of the cost.
Iowa Short Fiction Award: 1989 Judge: Gail Godwin
English
The Iowa Short Fiction Award & John Simmons Short Fiction Award
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152 pages
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