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agrarian echoes in modern life
American interior landscapes
atmospheric interior-state fiction
Author_Andrew Milward
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community fractures
conflicted regional identities
contemporary Americana short stories
contemporary prairie narratives
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crossroads-state short fiction
cultural crossroads in the plains
cultural undercurrents of the plains
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economic hardship in rural zones
emotional topography of the interior states
emotionally charged regional tales
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evocative Midwestern settings
flyover-country realism
Great Plains storytelling
heartland literary collection
hidden lives of Middle America
hinterland family drama
intimate narratives shaped by place
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literary glimpses into overlooked America
literary portraits of ordinary people
Midwestern existential challenges
Midwestern moral quandaries
Midwestern social issues
Midwestern socioeconomic pressures
modern American short-form storytelling
modern farm belt struggles
modern frontier conflicts
modern prairie mythmaking
modern rural disillusionment
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plains-state character studies
post-agrarian community stories
prairie-to-city transitions
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psychologically nuanced heartland tales
quiet tragedies of the plains
quiet-town secrets
rural decay and renewal
rural Midwest fiction
shifting prairie identity
small-town tensions
softlaunch
stark prairie atmosphere
stark yet tender character explorations
stories of isolation and resilience
tension between heritage and progress
Product details
- ISBN 9781558499485
- Weight: 218g
- Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 12 Apr 2012
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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These powerful stories limn the complexities and dilemmas of life in Kansas, a state at "the center of the center of America," as a billboard in one story announces. Andrew Malan Milward explores the less visible aspects of the Kansas experience-where its agrarian past comes into conflict with the harsh present reality of drugs, fundamentalism, and corporatism, relegating its agrarian identity to museums and amusement parks. Presented in a triptych, the stories in Milward's debut collection range across a varied terrain, from tumbledown rural barns to modern urban hospitals, revealing the secrets contained therein.
A native of Lawrence, Kansas, Andrew Malan Milward is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has served as a McCreight Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University.
