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02357aam a2200289 i 4500 001 57109BAE0C7C11EC8E70AEE442ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210903010031 008 200828s2021 wiu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2020035033 020 $a 0299331148 020 $a 9780299331146 035 $a (OCoLC)1193557627 040 $a WU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d UKMGB $d YDX $d DUD $d JPL $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3552 U399 B55 2021 100 1 $a Bukoski, Anthony, $e author. 245 14 $a The blondes of Wisconsin / $c Anthony Bukoski. 264 1 $a Madison, Wisconsin : $b The University of Wisconsin Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 151 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a Like stones cast into a river, these sixteen moving, intimate stories illuminate how devotion and degeneration ripple through a working-class Polish American community in the postindustrial Midwest. At the heart of the collection is Eddie "The Bronko" Bronkowski, a boxer with a losing record whose reputation as a human punching bag precedes him. In each of Anthony Bukoski's rich stories, tough yet sympathetic characters -- the second cook on a Great Lakes freighter, a World War II veteran, the emcee of a female boxing troupe -- take all that life throws at them, protecting those around them as best they can. In Bukoski's interconnected tales, the heart seeks its due despite familial conflict, the challenges of maritime work, and the slow yet inexorable decline of dementia. Beautiful vignettes express transformative moments: tenderness that can turn a cardboard crown into gold and the faint ghosts of memories long forgotten. A tour-de-force, The Blondes of Wisconsin knows what love is, and what it means to lose it. 505 0 $a Tributaries -- English through pictures -- The eve of the first -- The six purposes of drill -- Prospects -- Port of Milwaukee -- The second cook on the Henry L. Stimson -- They that go down to the sea -- Moonglade -- The shipmaster's ball -- This is your life -- Who is BronisÅaw Slinker? -- A dollar's worth -- The blondes of Wisconsin -- The vocabulary lesson -- Two blue roses in a teardrop vase. 650 0 $a Polish Americans $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231205012541.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=57109BAE0C7C11EC8E70AEE442ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search