{"product_id":"barnstorm-raphael-kadushin-9780299208547","title":"Barnstorm: Contemporary Wisconsin Fiction","description":"Though the best American writers live everywhere now, a popular fiction persists: our strongest literary voices are strictly bi-coastal ones. \u003ci\u003eBarnstorm\u003c\/i\u003e sets out to disprove that cliché and to undermine another one as well: the sense of regional fiction as something quaint, slightly regressive, and full of local color. The stories in this collection capture our global reality with a ruthless, unaffected voice. Lorrie Moore's \"The Jewish Hunter\" is a dark romance that's by turns cynical and guileless. Mack Friedman catches the smoking feel of first love in his \"Setting the Lawn on Fire,\" and Jesse Lee Kercheval's \"Brazil\" is a raucous, ultimately mournful road trip. For Jane Hamilton, Wisconsin is a gorgeous but bittersweet homecoming, and for Kelly Cherry, in her achingly elegiac \"As It Is in Heaven,\" it's the hopeful new world, juxtaposed with a bleak, tweedy England. Dwight Allen's \"The Green Suit\" evokes the young man edging toward adulthood, in a New York that's as flamboyant as an opera, and Tenaya Darlington, in her \"A Patch of Skin,\" constructs a pure horror story, because the horror of loneliness is something we all know. Together \u003ci\u003eBarnstorm's\u003c\/i\u003e eclectic voices suggest that every coast now, even the Great Lakes' shores, are at the very center of our best, and truest, national literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNot for sale in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Raphael Kadushin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299208540\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299208547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Terrace Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/10\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 321\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.18h x 6.08w x 0.72d","brand":"Raphael Kadushin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47202116698367,"sku":"9780299208547","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_318d1c2f-575b-4ba7-8bf7-b28d47836fc1.jpg?v=1756819687","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/barnstorm-raphael-kadushin-9780299208547","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}