Research Catalog

Title

North arrow / Dennis Barone.

Author

Barone, Dennis.

Publication

[Williamsburg, Mass.] : Quale Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Description

130 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"North Arrow is a collection of seventeen stories that traverse stylistic, emotional, and geographical landscapes. From New Jersey to the Netherlands to abstract poetic terrain, Dennis Barone places his characters in situations where they're forced to confront the nature of memory, of change, and of finding one's way in a society that can be hostile to those who circumvent its meager expectations. Barone's stories are instructive, but their morals are not clear-cut or pedantic. Rather, Barone creates space for the reader to sidle up next to his characters - an ambitious film director in a secret, proto-Hollywood New Jersey of the past; a young woman trying to make her way as a large-animal veterinarian in the Netherlands; the author himself, attempting to weave together the near and distant strains of his memory - as they are faced with decisions that will determine not only their own identities, but the stamp they will leave on the world."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents

The Common Good -- Northfield -- Modulation of the Naming Theme -- Fort Lee -- Out of the Blue -- North Arrow -- Friendship -- Get Ready -- The Lizard Brain -- In the Tropics -- An Observation -- Authority -- Sharks and Wolves -- Capriccio -- The Lives of the Martyrs -- Patriot Act -- What Difference.

ISBN

• 9780979299957
• 0979299950

LCCN

2008935611

OCLC

• ocn275193895
• 275193895
• SCSB-5456933

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries