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The Book of Famous Iowans: A Novel by Douglas Bauer (Paperback, 2014)

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Title: The Book of Famous Iowans. The Book of Famous Iowans examines those forces that define not only a state made up of a physical geography, but more important, those states of the wholly human spirit.

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Will Vaughn, a man of late middle age living in Chicago with his second wife, remembers the month of June 1957 in his hometown, the rural village of New Holland, Iowa. More precisely, Will remembers just a few days of that month and the quick sequence of astonishing events that have coloured, ever since, the logic of his heart and the moods of his mind. He tells of his stunningly beautiful young mother, Leanne, who liked to recall the years of the Second World War, during which she sang with a dance band in a lounge in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He tells too of his father, Lewis, a soldier in the war who one night saw the resplendently sequined Leanne step onstage and began at that instant to plot his courtship of her. But mostly what Will summons up in his intimate remembrance are those few catastrophic days in early June when he was three months shy of twelve, more than a decade after his parents have married and returned to the Vaughns' home place, where Lewis farms his family's land. For it is during those days that Leanne's affair with a local man named Bobby Markum becomes kwn--first to Lewis and then, in a fiercely dramatic public confrontation, to young Will, to his beloved Grandmother Vaughn, and by nightfall to all the citizens of the town. The kwledge of such scandal, in so small a place, sets off a series of highly charged reactions, vivid consequences that surely determine the fates of every member of this unforgettable family. A tale of memory and hero worship and the restless pulse of longing, The Book of Famous Iowans examines those forces that define t only a state made up of a physical geography, but more important, those states of the wholly human spirit.

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University of Iowa Press
ISBN-10
1609382668
ISBN-13
9781609382667
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208843503

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Author
Douglas Bauer
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Genre
General & Literary Fiction

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363g
Height
210mm
Width
140mm

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Place of Publication
Iowa
Spine
18mm
Author Biography
Douglas Bauer is the author of several books, including What Happens Next? Matters of Life and Death (Iowa, 2013), Prairie City, Iowa: Three Seasons at Home (Iowa, 2008), The Stuff of Fiction: Advice on Craft , and three novels, Dexterity, The Very Air , and The Book of Famous Iowans . His edited works include Death by Pad Thai and Other Unforgettable Meals and Prime Times: Writers on Their Favorite TV Shows . He lives in Boston and teaches literature at Bennington College, USA.
Date of Publication
30/09/2014
Country of Publication
United States

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