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Carville
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Displaced Persons Act
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fiction
flour mills
French Quarter
ghosts
Japanese kaidan
leprosy
Louisiana
Louisiana Resettlement Program
Natchitoches
New Orleans
Polish American
railroad
Streetcar Named Desire
Suddenly Last Summer
Superior
Tennessee Williams
Vietnam War
Wisconsin
Product details
- ISBN 9780299351748
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 06 May 2025
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Thief of Words is filled with desperate runaways, the unhappily married, and the displaced. They often long for happiness but struggle to explain—even to themselves—what that would entail.
The lightly interconnected stories in this riveting collection are split between the Polish American communities of northern Wisconsin and Louisiana, where refugees from World War II were resettled under the Displaced Persons Act of 1948. The collection explores themes of dislocation and assimilation, love and loneliness, and generational conflict. Anthony Bukoski admirably paints portraits of people doing their best, despite the odds and their sometimes-thwarted attempts to follow the urgings of their better angels.
Filled with humor and pathos and populated by fully realized characters, this is a beautifully written collection from an accomplished storyteller.
The lightly interconnected stories in this riveting collection are split between the Polish American communities of northern Wisconsin and Louisiana, where refugees from World War II were resettled under the Displaced Persons Act of 1948. The collection explores themes of dislocation and assimilation, love and loneliness, and generational conflict. Anthony Bukoski admirably paints portraits of people doing their best, despite the odds and their sometimes-thwarted attempts to follow the urgings of their better angels.
Filled with humor and pathos and populated by fully realized characters, this is a beautifully written collection from an accomplished storyteller.
Anthony Bukoski is an award-winning writer and a fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. A professor emeritus of English at the University of Wisconsin–Superior, he is the author of the collections The Blondes of Wisconsin, Time between Trains, Children of Strangers, and Polonaise.
