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I Was a Revolutionary: Stories
Paperback
General FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9780062377326
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Aug 2 2016
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
This collection brims with accessible originality, unparalleled range and thought-provoking heartbreak. . . . Like E.L. Doctorow in 'Ragtime, ' Milward fashions high art from historical events and figures. --Jackson Clarion-Ledger
A richly textured, diverse collection of short stories that illuminate the heartland and America itself, exploring questions of history, race, and identity.
Grounded in place, spanning the Civil War to the present day, the stories in I Was a Revolutionary capture the roil of history through the eyes of an unforgettable cast of characters: the visionaries and dreamers, radical farmers and socialist journalists, quack doctors and protestors who haunt the past and present landscape of the state of Kansas.
In these stories, the award-winning writer Andrew Malan Milward crafts an epic mosaic of the American experience, tracing how we live amid the inconvenient ghosts of history. The Burning of Lawrence vibrates with the raw terror of a town pillaged by pro-Confederate raiders. O Death recalls the desperately hard journey of the Exodusters--African-American migrants who came to Kansas to escape oppression in the South. And, in the collection's haunting title piece, a professor of Kansas history surveys his decades-long slide from radicalism to complacency, a shift that parallels the landscape around him.
Using his own home state as a prism through which to view both a nation's history and our own universal battles as individuals, Milward has created one of the freshest and most complex story collections in recent years.
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