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Melinda Moustakis Bear Down, Bear North (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Bear Down, Bear North
- Publication Name
- Bear Down, Bear North
- Title
- Bear Down, Bear North
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780820344904
- ISBN
- 9780820344904
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Year
- 2012
- Release Date
- 30/10/2012
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Item Weight
- 8.8 Oz
- Original Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), Westerns, Historical
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
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In her debut collection, Moustakis brings to life a rough-and-tumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories, examines the near-mythological accounts of the Alaskan wilderness, and probes the question of what it means to live up to larger-than-life expectations for toughness and survival.
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Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
0820344907
ISBN-13
9780820344904
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117141452
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bear Down, Bear North
Original Language
English
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Westerns, Historical
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
29
Reviews
"Moustakis crafts memorable characters with the raunchy dialogue of those who must grow up fast in the wilderness--'bear down'--or slink off to 'the lower 48 in places like Nashville and Omaha.'"- Shelf Awareness, Moustakis crafts memorable characters with the raunchy dialogue of those who must grow up fast in the wilderness-'bear down'-or slink off to 'the lower 48 in places like Nashville and Omaha.', Bear Down, Bear North is a beautiful collection of interlinked short stories, showing landscapes as ruggedly sparse as the often bleak but still lyrical prose, where people eat unspecified tins or starve until the next moose wanders past their door, and the secret world of fishing becomes poetry in motion . . . You can feel Moustakis' knowledge and love for her state emitting from every well chosen word. I cannot wait to read more of what she produces; this is one writer worth watching., " Bear Down, Bear North plunges its reader deep into tangled relations and beautiful places. This small craft of 13 linked stories holds everything necessary to survive the frigid Alaskan waters. . . . Melinda Moustakis works words attentively and playfully, slipping like a skater among her subjects, whether describing frenzied salmon spawning in the Kenai River or rowdy children rescuing a bird from a privy."-- High Country News, "In this sharply-crafted debut collection, Moustakis invites readers into a world filled with gruff characters, breathtaking wilderness, and a fierceness of spirit as crisp as the Alaskan winter . . . The gifted Moustakis' attention to detail and blunt, sharp prose will surely resonate with readers and fellow writers alike."-- Publishers Weekly (starred review), "Using a series of quick micro-chapters -- an approach sometimes called 'modular fiction' -- Moustakis jumps between past and present in collages of verbal snapshots that crowd upon each other to create an indelible mood and characters as focused and real as those in John Steinbeck's novels."-- Anchorage Daily News, " Bear Down, Bear North plunges its reader deep into tangled relations and beautiful places. This small craft of 13 linked stories holds everything necessary to survive the frigid Alaskan waters. . . . Melinda Moustakis works words attentively and playfully, slipping like a skater among her subjects, whether describing frenzied salmon spawning in the Kenai River or rowdy children rescuing a bird from a privy."- High Country News, "In this sharply-crafted debut collection, Moustakis invites readers into a world filled with gruff characters, breathtaking wilderness, and a fierceness of spirit as crisp as the Alaskan winter . . . The gifted Moustakis' attention to detail and blunt, sharp prose will surely resonate with readers and fellow writers alike."- Publishers Weekly (starred review), In this sharply-crafted debut collection, Moustakis invites readers into a world filled with gruff characters, breathtaking wilderness, and a fierceness of spirit as crisp as the Alaskan winter . . . The gifted Moustakis' attention to detail and blunt, sharp prose will surely resonate with readers and fellow writers alike."--Publishers Weekly"The Kenai is the lifeblood that flows through Moustakis' arrestingly concise, subtly poetic, and piercing short stories about several generations of an extended family."--Booklist (starred review), "Moustakis crafts memorable characters with the raunchy dialogue of those who must grow up fast in the wilderness--'bear down'--or slink off to 'the lower 48 in places like Nashville and Omaha.'"-- Shelf Awareness, Moustakis allows readers to fully witness how experience-from a poverty that necessitates scavenging through the belongings of the dead to a younger sister's beating-can shape lives without creating eternal victims. Burdens become gritty, matter-of-fact reminders that profound emotions often lie behind even the most unflinching exteriors. A welcome tribute to working class lives, Bear Down, Bear North is a debut of impressive voices in the wilderness., "Melinda Moustakis' stunning debut book, Bear Down, Bear North . . . is a muscular and lyrical short story collection of moxie and love of the land set in her home state of Alaska. Moustakis' stories are built out of short vignettes, revolving around rough childhoods, fishing, hunting, drinking and regretting, all part of the saga of several generations of a homesteading family."-- Kansas City Star, "Moustakis allows readers to fully witness how experience--from a poverty that necessitates scavenging through the belongings of the dead to a younger sister's beating--can shape lives without creating eternal victims. Burdens become gritty, matter-of-fact reminders that profound emotions often lie behind even the most unflinching exteriors. A welcome tribute to working class lives, Bear Down, Bear North is a debut of impressive voices in the wilderness."-- ForeWord Reviews, " Bear Down, Bear North is a beautiful collection of interlinked short stories, showing landscapes as ruggedly sparse as the often bleak but still lyrical prose, where people eat unspecified tins or starve until the next moose wanders past their door, and the secret world of fishing becomes poetry in motion . . . You can feel Moustakis' knowledge and love for her state emitting from every well chosen word. I cannot wait to read more of what she produces; this is one writer worth watching."-- For Books' Sake, Melinda Moustakis' stunning debut book, Bear Down, Bear North . . . is a muscular and lyrical short story collection of moxie and love of the land set in her home state of Alaska. Moustakis' stories are built out of short vignettes, revolving around rough childhoods, fishing, hunting, drinking and regretting, all part of the saga of several generations of a homesteading family., Using a series of quick micro-chapters - an approach sometimes called 'modular fiction' - Moustakis jumps between past and present in collages of verbal snapshots that crowd upon each other to create an indelible mood and characters as focused and real as those in John Steinbeck's novels., "The Kenai is the lifeblood that flows through Moustakis' arrestingly concise, subtly poetic, and piercing short stories about several generations of an extended family."- Booklist (starred review), "The Kenai is the lifeblood that flows through Moustakis' arrestingly concise, subtly poetic, and piercing short stories about several generations of an extended family."-- Booklist (starred review), The Kenai is the lifeblood that flows through Moustakis' arrestingly concise, subtly poetic, and piercing short stories about several generations of an extended family., "Melinda Moustakis' stunning debut book, Bear Down, Bear North . . . is a muscular and lyrical short story collection of moxie and love of the land set in her home state of Alaska. Moustakis' stories are built out of short vignettes, revolving around rough childhoods, fishing, hunting, drinking and regretting, all part of the saga of several generations of a homesteading family."- Kansas City Star, "Moustakis allows readers to fully witness how experience-from a poverty that necessitates scavenging through the belongings of the dead to a younger sister's beating-can shape lives without creating eternal victims. Burdens become gritty, matter-of-fact reminders that profound emotions often lie behind even the most unflinching exteriors. A welcome tribute to working class lives, Bear Down, Bear North is a debut of impressive voices in the wilderness."- ForeWord Reviews, "Using a series of quick micro-chapters -- an approach sometimes called 'modular fiction' -- Moustakis jumps between past and present in collages of verbal snapshots that crowd upon each other to create an indelible mood and characters as focused and real as those in John Steinbeck's novels."- Anchorage Daily News, In this sharply-crafted debut collection, Moustakis invites readers into a world filled with gruff characters, breathtaking wilderness, and a fierceness of spirit as crisp as the Alaskan winter . . . The gifted Moustakis' attention to detail and blunt, sharp prose will surely resonate with readers and fellow writers alike., " Bear Down, Bear North is a beautiful collection of interlinked short stories, showing landscapes as ruggedly sparse as the often bleak but still lyrical prose, where people eat unspecified tins or starve until the next moose wanders past their door, and the secret world of fishing becomes poetry in motion . . . You can feel Moustakis' knowledge and love for her state emitting from every well chosen word. I cannot wait to read more of what she produces; this is one writer worth watching."- For Books' Sake
Copyright Date
2011
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Flannery O'connor Award for Short Fiction Ser.
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