| Q Road Contributor(s): Campbell, Bonnie Jo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743203666 ISBN-13: 9780743203661 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2003 Annotation: Campbell, winner of the 2001 Pushcart Prize, is a storyteller every bit as gifted as Larry Brown or Eudora Welty, a social commentator and wordsmith of the first order. This novel shows what happens when a hardscrabble town meets modern development. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Small Town & Rural - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2003050434 |
| Series: Mysteries & Horror |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.55 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Rural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Combining the modern-farm-life realities of Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres with the quirky humor and eccentric characters of Carolyn Chute's The Beans of Egypt, Maine, Q Road is a charming debut from Bonnie Jo Campbell. Greenland Township, Michigan: On the same acres where farmers once displaced Potawatomi Indians, suburban developers now supplant farmers and prefab homes spring up in last year's cornfields. All along Q Road--or "Queer Road," as the locals call it--the old, rural life collides weirdly with the new. With a cast of lovingly rendered eccentrics and a powerful sense of place, Q Road is a lively tale of nature and human desire that alters the landscape of contemporary fiction. |
Contributor Bio(s): Campbell, Bonnie Jo: - Bonnie Jo Campbell has won a Pushcart Prize, as well as the Associated Writing Programs Award in short fiction for her story collection, Women and Other Animals. She lives a few miles from where she was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. To learn more, visit BonnieJoCampbell.com. |