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Driftless
Author | : David Rhodes |
Publsiher | : Milkweed Editions |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781571318008 |
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“A fast-moving story about small town life with characters that seem to have walked off the pages of Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology.”—The Wall Street Journal The few hundred souls who inhabit Words, Wisconsin, are an extraordinary cast of characters. The middle-aged couple who zealously guards their farm from a scheming milk cooperative. The lifelong invalid, crippled by conflicting emotions about her sister. A cantankerous retiree, haunted by childhood memories after discovering a cougar in his haymow. The former drifter who forever alters the ties that bind a community. In his first novel in 30 years, David Rhodes offers a vivid and unforgettable look at life in small-town America. “[Rhodes’s] finest work yet . . . Driftless is the best work of fiction to come out of the Midwest in many years.”—Chicago Tribune “Set in a rural Wisconsin town, the book presents a series of portraits that resemble Edgar Lee Masters’s ‘Spoon River Anthology’ in their vividness and in the cumulative picture they create of village life.”—The New Yorker “Encompassing and incisive, comedic and profound, Driftless is a radiant novel of community and courage.”—Booklist (starred review) “A welcome antidote to overheated urban fiction . . . A quiet novel of depth and simplicity.”—Kirkus Reviews “It takes a while for all these stories to kick in, but once they do, Rhodes shows he still knows how to keep readers riveted. Add a blizzard, a marauding cougar and some rabble-rousing militiamen, and the result is a novel that is as affecting as it is pleasantly overstuffed.”—Publishers Weekly
Driftless
Author | : Danny Wilcox Frazier |
Publsiher | : Center for Documentary Studies |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822035421510 |
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Winner of the third biennial Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize Robert Frank, Prize Judge In Driftless, Danny Wilcox Frazier's dramatic black-and-white photographs portray a changing Midwest of vanishing towns and transformed landscapes. As rural economies fail, people, resources, and services are migrating to the coasts and cities, as though the heart of America were being emptied. Frazier's arresting photographs take us into Iowa's abandoned places and illuminate the lives of those people who stay behind and continue to live there: young people at leisure, fishermen on the Mississippi, veterans on Memorial Day, Amish women playing cards, as well as more recent arrivals: Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews at prayer, Latinos at work in the fields. Frazier's camera finds these newcomers while it also captures activities that seemingly have gone on forever: harvesting and hunting, celebrating and socializing, praying and surviving. This collection of photographs is a portrait of contemporary rural Iowa, but it is also more that that. It shows what is happening in many rural and out-of-the-way communities all over the United States, where people find ways to get by in the wake of closing factories and the demise of family farms. Taken by a true insider who has lived in Iowa his entire life, Frazier's photographs are rich in emotion and give expression to the hopes and desires of the people who remain, whose needs and wants are complicated by the economic realities remaking rural America. Poetic and dark but illuminated with flashes of insight, Frazier's stunning images evoke the brilliance of Robert Frank's The Americans. To view an image gallery, click here.
Going Driftless
Author | : Stephen J. Lyons |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2015-05-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781493015665 |
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Going Driftless is a book that explores a whole world within a world in the upper Midwest and looks at the nostalgia of small towns and local living (eating, shopping, etc.)—and asks how does it work what lessons can we learn from it.
Driftless Stories
Author | : John Motoviloff |
Publsiher | : Big Earth Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1879483807 |
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Southwest Wisconsin, the rugged area untouched by the last glaciers, is a gem of exquisite beauty and unique natural features. In these lyrical essays, John Motoviloff explores the region as a hunter and fisherman, breaking down the traditional barriers between hunting and environmentalism, between poetry and prose.
The Physical Geography and Geology of the Driftless Area
Author | : Eric C. Carson,J. Elmo Rawling III,J. Michael Daniels,John W. Attig |
Publsiher | : Geological Society of America |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2019-11-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780813725437 |
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The Driftless Reader
Author | : Curt Meine,Keefe Keeley |
Publsiher | : Emerald Group Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299314804 |
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The enchanting, enigmatic Driftless Area of the Upper Midwest is anthologized here with readings and illustrations from the region's Native people, explorers, scientists, historians, farmers, journalists, poets, and artists, including Black Hawk, Mark Twain, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frank Lloyd Wright, Aldo Leopold, August Derleth, and David Rhodes.
Crossing the Driftless
Author | : Lynne Diebel |
Publsiher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2015-03-24 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780299302948 |
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Both a traveler's tale of a 359-mile canoe trip and an exploration of the dramatic environment of the Upper Midwest's Driftless region, following the streams of geologic and human history.