The Best of Montana's Short Fiction - Hardcover

Jones, Allen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1592282695 ISBN 13: 9781592282692

Publisher: The Lyons Press, 2004

Synopsis

Twenty-one stories from the best writers in Big Sky Country.

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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...the 21 stories here work brilliantly as a collective voice." --"Billings Gazette" (Montana) "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."--"Billings Gazette" .."a reflection of the state ...""--Outside Bozeman magazine" "This is a fine book, top-heavy with talent."--"Booklist"

From the Back Cover:

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 is as big as the state. There’s the cuckolded father in Richard Ford’s classic, “Great Falls,” or Ralph Beer’s hero in “Big Spenders,” sitting with his umbrella drink, dreaming about palm trees and white crescent beaches. There’s also Thomas McGuane’s eavesdropping narrator in “Like a Leaf,” watching other people’s lives, always from a distance. Chris Offutt’s protagonist in “Tough People” is trying to earn enough money in amateur boxing to get out of town, while Mary Clearman Blew’s narrator in “Bears and Lions” describes how her home is slipping away—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.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Lyons Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1592282695
• ISBN 13: 9781592282692
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Kittredge William, Jones Allen Morris