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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780870744792
ISBN number: 0870744798
Label: Southern Methodist University Press
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Page Count: 200
Printing Date: 2003-07
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Welcome to Superior, Wisconsin, home to a declining population, often-dismal weather, and dying ethnic communities. Despite the ore dust blanketing the city, miracles occur here. In the title story, a Jewish train track inspector discovers a magical place behind the house of a lonely Polish schoolteacher; in 'Closing Time,' an accordion player at the local VFW finds an appreciative audience in a disillusioned German war bride; in 'The Moon of the Grass Fires,' a retired flour mill worker has a vision of goodness and life's meaning as he walks near the East End's abandoned ore docks.
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A short story writer, Anthony Bukoski has
written "Time Between Trains." He may
be the best short story writer in America,
a master that discriminating readers of
literary fiction know. Bukoski teaches at
a small Mid-Western college, University
of Wisconsin-Superior. And the writer
grew up in Superior, Wisconsin in the
fifties, when the parents and
grandparents of the lake port, Superior,
Wisconsin still spoke Polish.
Bukoski's characters, the downtrodden
of a frozen port at the tip of Lake
Superior are proud of their lost Poland,
a place of sad fading memories. The
Catholic Church is the beacon of the
community and the aging women pray
and ward off fantasies of superstition
and the realities of poverty. The men
work grunt jobs at mills and shipyards
rusting with the old economies of the
mid-century. And all that work is done in
sub-zero weather. No wonder the
patrons of Superior taverns have the
highest per-capita degree of alcoholism
in the United States.
Each story tells a tale of a particular
Superior resident, a little boy, a drunken
Polish Sailor, a frightened American
soldier back from Vietnam, and a
beautiful love story about lonely heart
people in desolate forests. I highly
recommend.
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