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Author:
Meissner, William, 1948-
Title:
The road to Cosmos : the faces of an American town / Bill Meissner.
Publisher:
University of Notre Dame Press,
Copyright Date:
c2006
Description:
x, 192 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Eccentrics and eccentricities.--Fiction.
Middle West--Social life and customs.--Fiction.
Contents:
pt. 3. A road so close to home. Skip and Dwight : stargazing. Lilly : the demolition driver's wife -- Skip remembers : fainting -- Mesmerizing Minnie : another life -- Skip remembers : Speedy -- Gerald, the retired science teacher : the things that are close, a story of love -- Skip remembers : Otie, fake fights -- Molly : runaway -- Skip remembers : the handkerchief -- Skip remembers : Freddie and the Dreamers -- pt. 2. At the intersection of dreams and asphalt. June : the last of the rain -- Rob and Roxanne : what makes it go around -- Delores : the woman who dreamed Elvis -- Stan : the man who chased tornadoes -- Russell and Kerri : train whistles, flights of geese -- Norm and Johnny : the everyday drive -- Dominic : falling away -- Bud : the things you lose, an elusive kind of light -- Duane : the car circle -- Elmo : the groundskeeper -- Chance : the crop duster -- pt. 3. A road so close to home. Skip remembers : a road so smooth, and so close to home -- Skip remembers : the rescue -- Skip remembers : the waking of the carrots -- Skip remembers : the hunting jacket -- Skip remembers : one egg at a time -- Skip remembers : the ones that got away -- Skip remembers : seven stories about the old American cars -- Skip : fishermen never have much to say -- Skip and Dwight : stargazing.
ISBN:
9780268035013 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0268035016 (pbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)70831018
LCCN:
2006024964
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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