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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461259503321

Autore

Cole Marjorie Kowalski

Titolo

The City Beneath the Snow [[electronic resource] ] : Stories

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fairbanks, : University of Alaska Press, 2012

ISBN

1-60223-156-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Collana

University of Alaska Press - The Alaska Literary Series

Disciplina

813.6

813/.6

Soggetti

Alaska -- Fiction

English

Languages & Literatures

American Literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Highways; Holly, 1968; The Music of Desire; Taking It Plain; Facing the Music; Aurora Borealis; A Secret Between the Two of Them; Pieta; Hawks Over Water; Fooling the Guesser; With This Body; The Same Salt; Grace; Psalm for Anabel; Rara Avis; Star of the Sea; The City Beneath the Snow; Afterword

Sommario/riassunto

The final collection of stories by award-winning writer Marjorie Kowalski Cole, The City Beneath the Snow   is a portrait of contemporary Alaskans and a look at the moral decisions that lurk in the unexpected corners of daily life.""Marjorie Kowalski Cole's characters live, work, and struggle in interior Alaska, and she depicts life here with a keen eye and with compassion. We see the daughter of a Fairbanks junkyard owner struggling with her isolation. We meet a bartender at Circle Hot Springs who's also a certified nurse's assistant at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. . . . These are inner lives