A Place of Sense - Essays in Search of Midwest

Collected here are essays by Louise Erdrich, Michael Rosen, Gary Comstock, Mary Swander and Jane Staw, David Hamilton, Janet Kauffman, Douglas Bauer, and Michael Martone. Sixteen black-and-white photographs by David Plowden illustrate the sweeping territory covered in the essays. Together they bring a new understanding of the moods, emotions, people, and places that form the Midwest, proving it to be as complex and unordinarily beautiful as it is modest.

About the author

Midwesterner Michael Martone is the author of three collections of stories, Alive and Dead in Indiana, Safety Patrol, and Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List. He is associate professor of English at Syracuse University.

Summary

Essays describe life in small towns, farming communities, and suburbs in states from Ohio to North Dakota.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Martone
• Assisted by: David Plowden (Photographs), Michael Martone (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1988
• EAN: 9780877452171
• ISBN: 978-0-87745-217-1
• No. of pages: 170
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 202 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 272 g
• Series: Bur Oak Original; Bur Oak Books; Bur Oak Books; Bur Oak Original
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous