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My Father's War Stories of Midwestern Men Barton Sutter |
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Poignant and revealing stories from one of the Midwest's leading authors. In this collection of stories, Barton Sutter shows us all the ways in which we are shaped by our surroundings. With an unswerving gaze, he portrays the rituals of growing up that we all experience, no matter how old we think we are. “These [stories] are astonishingly good. It’s possible to live life to the absolute, ecstatic fullest in northern Minnesota, or it’s possible to screw up, make the wrong choices, squander your years meaninglessly in the Midwest. Scariest of all, it’s possible to live next to lives of great meaning and not recognize that fact.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review "These are wonderful stories—images of personal and societal growth that are at once hopeful and skeptical, loving and shrewd." —New Orleans Times-Picayune “Sutter’s tales are set in small towns where stray dogs find homes on strangers’ porches, on icy rivers where young men breast raging rapids, and at snowed-in farmhouses of old men with secrets to tell. Yet it isn’t Sutter’s Minnesota woods or Iowa farmlands that will attract readers, it’s the men he plants there.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “A finely crafted collection, solid as a cedar strip canoe and earthy as a John Deere tractor just in from plowing.” —The Ripsaw Barton Sutter is the author of Cold Comfort (1998) and three books of poetry, most recently The Book of Names (1993). His work has appeared in dozens of magazines, including Minnesota Monthly and North American Review. He makes his home in Duluth, Minnesota. 272 pages | 5-7/8 x 9 | 2000 |
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$16.95 Paper