First published in the dark days immediately before World War II, Capital City is Mari Sandoz's angriest and most political novel. Like many important American novels of the 1930s-John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Jack Conroy's The Disinherited, Robert Cantwell's Land of Plenty-Capital City depicts the troubles of working people trapped in the Great Depression. A unique portrayal of how the Depression affected the Great Plains, it examines the forces that bitterly contended for wealth and power. Sandoz researched the daily life and behind-the-scenes operations of several state capitals in...
First published in the dark days immediately before World War II, Capital City is Mari Sandoz's angriest and most political novel. Like many important...
"I talk like a lady who knows what she wants" is how the vagrant begins her story in "Trailer Girl". As she struggles to rescue what she says is a wild girl hiding in the gully, the neighbors become more certain than ever that the child is imaginary -- until there's a murder. Stark and disturbing, "Trailer Girl" is the story of cycles of child abuse and the dream to escape them.
In "Psychic", a clairvoyant knows she's been hired by a murderer, in "Leadership" a tiny spaceship lands between a boy and his parents, in "Venice", a woman performs the Heimlich maneuver on an ex-husband, then...
"I talk like a lady who knows what she wants" is how the vagrant begins her story in "Trailer Girl". As she struggles to rescue what she says is a wil...
In this stunningly original collection of seventeen short stories, Terese Svoboda navigates a terrain of alienation and loss with searing, poetic prose. I talk like a lady who knows what she wants, begins the vagrant narrator of the title story. She insists there s a wild child hiding among the cows in the gully near her home. Others in the trailer park think it s just herself she s chasing, but no one helps her sort out the truth until there s a murder. Stark and disturbing, Trailer Girl is a story of cycles of child abuse and the dream to escape them.In Psychic a clairvoyant knows she s...
In this stunningly original collection of seventeen short stories, Terese Svoboda navigates a terrain of alienation and loss with searing, poetic pros...
All of the medical, technological, and psychological advances of the twentieth century challenge "mere mortals" in Terese Svoboda's third book of poetry. In "Faust," a mini-epic in five acts, the eponymous character of literary legend appears in the form of a woman, who redefines what being mortal means in light of the politics of the Third World, and gender. In contrast "Ptolemy's Rules for High School Reunions" explores what happens when you do without a pact with the devil. The gods--Greek and otherwise--also make appearances as a TV announcer in "Philomela," in the basement with the...
All of the medical, technological, and psychological advances of the twentieth century challenge "mere mortals" in Terese Svoboda's third book of poet...
These are poems of family, of romantic hope and disappointment, of parenthood, and of grief that move from a childhood in Nebraska in which a father strides into a ripe wheat field; to the parks and parking lots of New York City, the interchangeable landscapes of suburban America, and the more sensual environment of secluded water; to little traveled parts of Africa and the Pacific where our customs and passions are refracted into shapes that are sometimes beautiful, sometimes grotesque.
Terese Svoboda writes of a world in which the reassuring simplicity remembered from childhood is...
These are poems of family, of romantic hope and disappointment, of parenthood, and of grief that move from a childhood in Nebraska in which a fathe...
Young Harriet s father sells her as a slave to settle his gambling debt with an eccentric Indian and her story is just beginning. Part Huck Finn, part True Grit, Harriet s story of her encounter with the dark and brutal history of the American West is a true original. When she escapes the strange mound-building obsession of her Pawnee captor, Harriet sets off on a trek to find her father, only to meet with ever-stranger characters and situations along the way. She befriends a Jewish prairie peddler, escapes witha chanteuse, is imprisoned in a stockade and rescued by a Civil War...
Young Harriet s father sells her as a slave to settle his gambling debt with an eccentric Indian and her story is just beginning. Part Huck Finn, part...
"This is God," the novel begins, and we are spinning on our way into the heart of a Midwest that spans spirits and centuries and forever redefines the middle of nowhere.
Whispers plague a desperate conquistador lost in tall prairie grass. Four hundred years later, a male go-go dancer flings a bag of dope into the same field. God, in the person of a perm-giving, sheetcake-baking Nebraska farm woman, casts a jaundiced yet merciful eye over the unfolding chaos. Fire and a pair of judiciously applied pantyhose bring the two stories together. A contemplation of divinity and drugs on the...
"This is God," the novel begins, and we are spinning on our way into the heart of a Midwest that spans spirits and centuries and forever redefines ...
