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Montana has long drawn the outcasts and the dreamers, the searchers and the hiders--and the writers. Here are twenty-one stories from the frontier of our country and the edge of our national imagination.
The cast of characters in these stories is as big as the state. There''s the cuckolded father in Richard Ford''s classic, "Great Falls," or Ralph Beers''s hero in "Big Spenders," sitting with his umbrella drink, dreaming about palm trees and white crescent beaches. And Thomas McGuane''s narrator in "Like a Leaf," eavesdropping on the narrators and watching other people''s lives. Chris Offutt''s protagonist in "Tough People" is trying to earn enough money in amateur boxing to get out of town, while Mary Clearman Brew''s narrator in "Bears and Lions" describes how her home is moving away from her--how the West is leaving her behind.
Montana has for years been a special place for writers. The Best of Montana''s Short Fiction is long overdue.
The cast of characters in these stories is as big as the state. There''s the cuckolded father in Richard Ford''s classic, "Great Falls," or Ralph Beers''s hero in "Big Spenders," sitting with his umbrella drink, dreaming about palm trees and white crescent beaches. And Thomas McGuane''s narrator in "Like a Leaf," eavesdropping on the narrators and watching other people''s lives. Chris Offutt''s protagonist in "Tough People" is trying to earn enough money in amateur boxing to get out of town, while Mary Clearman Brew''s narrator in "Bears and Lions" describes how her home is moving away from her--how the West is leaving her behind.
Montana has for years been a special place for writers. The Best of Montana''s Short Fiction is long overdue.
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About the Author:
William Kittredge is a retired Regents Professor at the University of Montana. His most recent books are The Nature of Generosity and The Best Stories of William Kittredge. He lives in Missoula, Montana.
Allen Morris Jones is the former editor of Big Sky Journal. He lives in Livingston, Montana.
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Allen Morris Jones is the former editor of Big Sky Journal. He lives in Livingston, Montana.
"This is a fine book, top-heavy with talent."--Booklist
"The real Montana lies in the rich variety of characters and situations created by the authors in this collection."--The Denver Post
". . . a remarkable anthology of twenty-one short stories."--Forecast
"This is a terrific collection and its contemporary focus actually works in its favor, more faithfully relecting Montana's struggle to simultaneously live in the past and the present. . . the twenty-one stories here work brilliantly as a collective voice." --Billings Gazette (Montana)
“[Thomas McGuane’s] story displays all the powerful psychological insight of Chekhov with a little of the restlessness and innovation of Joyce as well. It is literally a tour de force. Similarly, the piece by Annick Smith (“It’s Come to This”) is a dazzling beauty of a tale, every much the equal of a story by Katherine Anne Porter or Eudora Welty. . . . The Best of Montana’s Short Fiction is a lively new anthology, perhaps the most interesting to appear since Writers of the Purple Sage.” –The Bloomsbury Review
"Never merely decorative, the wild, sometimes 'wide open spaces' in The Best of Montana Short Fiction stretch farther than years and go deeper than character, rooted, as they are, in the fundamentals of life and death."--San Diego Union Tribune
"The real Montana lies in the rich variety of characters and situations created by the authors in this collection."--The Denver Post
". . . a remarkable anthology of twenty-one short stories."--Forecast
"This is a terrific collection and its contemporary focus actually works in its favor, more faithfully relecting Montana's struggle to simultaneously live in the past and the present. . . the twenty-one stories here work brilliantly as a collective voice." --Billings Gazette (Montana)
“[Thomas McGuane’s] story displays all the powerful psychological insight of Chekhov with a little of the restlessness and innovation of Joyce as well. It is literally a tour de force. Similarly, the piece by Annick Smith (“It’s Come to This”) is a dazzling beauty of a tale, every much the equal of a story by Katherine Anne Porter or Eudora Welty. . . . The Best of Montana’s Short Fiction is a lively new anthology, perhaps the most interesting to appear since Writers of the Purple Sage.” –The Bloomsbury Review
"Never merely decorative, the wild, sometimes 'wide open spaces' in The Best of Montana Short Fiction stretch farther than years and go deeper than character, rooted, as they are, in the fundamentals of life and death."--San Diego Union Tribune
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- PublisherLyons Pr
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1592288197
- ISBN 13 9781592288199
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages342
- EditorKittredge William, Jones Allen Morris
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