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SANDOZ, MARI; SVOBODA, TERESE (INTRODUCTION). Capital City.
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London: 2007. New Bison Books Edition. s Softcover. Brand new book.
First published in the dark days immediately before World War II, Capital City is Mari Sandoz's angriest and most political novel. Like many important American novels of the 1930sÑJohn Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Jack Conroy's The Disinherited, Robert Cantwell's Land of Plenty ÑCapital City depicts the troubles of working people trapped in the Great Depression. A unique portrayal of how the Depression affected the Great Plains, it examines the forces that bitterly contended for wealth and power. Sandoz researched the daily life and behind-the-scenes operations of several state capitals in the thirties before synthesizing them in this novel, which is part allegory, part indictment, part warning. Famous for her passionate writing, Sandoz imbued Capital City with the full measure of her outrage. Mari Sandoz (1896-1966) is one of Nebraska's foremost authors. She wrote twenty-three books about the High Plains region, including Crazy Horse, Cheyenne Autumn, and Old Jules, available in Bison Books editions. Terese Svoboda is the author of four novels, most recently Tin God (Nebraska 2006), and grew up on the edge of the Sandhills. "The violence in this new novel is almost unrelieved by any sweetness or light. . . . This novel is strong meat; not at all for the squeamish."ÑSaturday Review of Literature
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MIANO, LEONORA; BLACK, TAMSIN (TRANSLATION); SVOBODA, TERESE (FOREWORD). Dark Heart Of The Night.
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2011. First Edition. s Softcover. Brand new book.
What is Africa's own "heart of darkness"? It is what confronts AyanŽ when, after three years abroad, she returns to the Central African village of her birth. Now an "outsider" with foreign ways distrusted by her fellow villagers, she must face alone the customs and superstitions that bind this clan of men and women. When invading militia organize a horrific ceremony that they claim will help reunite Africa, AyanŽ is forced to confront the monstrosity of the act that follows, as well as the responsibility that all the villagers must bear for silently accepting evil done in their name. Through AyanŽ's unwilling witness, LŽonora Miano probes the themes of submission and responsibility and questions the role of Africans in the suffering of their fellows. Also exploring African identity, Dark Heart of the Night is a profoundly disturbing novel in its evocation of the darkest side of people driven by their instinct to survive.
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SVOBODA, TERESE. Tin God.
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2006. Flyover Fiction Series. h Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book.
Celebrated by the New York Times Book Review for its "genuine grace and beauty," Terese Svoboda's work has been called "desperate, chilling, seductive" (Vogue) and "haunting and profound" (A. M. Homes), while Vanity Fair warned that it "detonates on contact." In Tin God, her writing can only be called . . . divine. "This is God," the novel begins, helpfully spelling G-O-D for the reader, and we are spinning on our way into the heart of a Midwest that spans spirits and centuries and forever redefines the middle of nowhere. Whispers plague a desperate conquistador lost in tall prairie grass. Four hundred years later, a male go-go dancer flings a bag of dope into the same field. God, in the person of a perm-giving, sheetcake-baking Nebraska farm woman, casts a jaundiced yet merciful eye over the unfolding chaos. Fire and a pair of judiciously applied pantyhose bring the two stories together. A contemplation of divinity and drugs on the ground, Tin God is a funny yet poignant story of the plains that transcends its interstate spine and exposes us to a whole new level of Svoboda's fiery prose. Terese Svoboda, a native of Ogallala, Nebraska, is the author of eight books of prose and poetry, including Trailer Girl and Other Stories, Cannibal, and Treason. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in many publications, including Harper's, Paris Review, and The New Yorker. "Svoboda's fiercely symbolic and brashly audacious allegory is a fanciful yet cautionary tale."ÑBooklist "In this book, god is not a solemn, dignified deity but a wisecracking woman with attention deficit disorderÑthe intentionally lower-case, working-class version of a supreme being. . . . Readers will find Svoboda's perspective on God, faith, and the impulses that drive human behavior original and quirky. Her characters are self-absorbed buffoons at times but totally believable. This funny romp is very highly recommended for public libraries."ÑLibrary Journal "This new title from the University of Nebraska Press shimmers with crisp writing, an out-of-the ordinary story and unique characters." ÑLincoln Journal Star "It's hard to spell out dreamsÑto rein them in, to make the story under our lives rise to the surface. Terese Svoboda brings a light hand, a pinch of humor and a lot of irreverence to this weighty task with her new novel, Tin God. . . . [T]he wisdom of Tin God lies in the idea that, in dreams, some people get within spitting distance of God, while others sleep the sleep of forgetting." ÑSusan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times "Svoboda's fiction is marked by the same dark felicity of language found in her poetry. . . . A sense of urgency pervades all of her work, giving the words a pulse, making her language race with insistence."ÑTimothy Schaffert, Poets and Writers "Fabulous fabulist Svoboda (Trailer Girl) checks in to indulge a talent for wild, sketchy comedy. Laid in Willa Cather country, this quick take has some of Thomas Pynchon's quirky Americana crossed with the Indian tales of Jaime de Angulo. . . . Back and forth the narrative moves, with Steinian The Making of Americans logic gluing together this eccentric vision of a God-driven Middle America. Svoboda loves her red-state mopes, and that warmth both illuminates and animates her eccentric prose."ÑPublishers Weekly
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