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050 00 $aPS3618.A644$bT48 2005
082 00 $a813/.6$222
100 1 $aRandolph, Ladette.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005013718
245 10 $aThis is not the tropics :$bstories /$cLadette Randolph.
260 $aMadison :$bTerrace Books,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $aix, 280 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aLibrary of American fiction
505 00 $tWhat she knows -- $tA member of the family -- $tThe boy in the band uniform -- $tThe shouting woman -- $tMiss Kielbasa -- $tIt's cheaper to live in the dark -- $tHyacinths -- $tThe girls -- $tThe picture in her dream -- $tBilly -- $tThis is not the tropics -- $tAfter Canaan -- $tThe sensitive man -- $tDill -- $tThe blue room.
520 1 $a"The stories collected in This Is Not the Tropics come from the geographic center of a divided nation, and its protagonists evoke a split personality - one half submerged in America's own diehard mythology, the other half searching to escape tradition. Together they form a portrait of the Plains that is both quirky and poignant. While the themes in this collection are familiar - love and betrayal, loneliness and regret, the needs of the individual versus the needs of the community - the stories themselves are startling and new. Whether it is the story of an eccentric, out-of-work accordion player; a woman ending a long marriage against the backdrop of a visit from her failing mother; a young girl who wishes to solve a mystery until real mystery enters her life; two sisters who watch as their mother battles an entire town, including their father; a man who comes to be suspicious of his new girlfriend's stalker story; or all of the men in a small Nebraska town who annually compete in a hilariously earnest beauty pageant, these are tales that speak of the lives lived in the small towns, the prairie cities, and on the dirt roads off blue highways in the middle of nowhere and everywhere."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100003
830 0 $aLibrary of American fiction.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip058/2005005452.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3618.A644$iT48 2005