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In Extremis and Other Alaskan Stories by Jean Anderson (1989, Trade Paperback)

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121 pages. Published by Plover Press. Pages are clean and unmarked.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPlover Press

ISBN-100917635078

ISBN-139780917635076

eBay Product ID (ePID)451547

Product Key Features

Book TitleIn Extremis and Other Alaskan Stories

Number of Pages120 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral

Publication Year1989

GenreFiction

AuthorJean Anderson

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight6.7 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN89-003507

Dewey Edition19

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisAlaska, with its midnight sun, seemingly endless winter and vast stretches of isolated land, is a main character here, playing subtle but key roles in each story of this superior first collection. In PARTING OUT, a professor's middle-aged wife sits at her breakfast table, her thoughts jumping from the facts of her marriage to fantasies of her husband's unfaithfulness. But even with her disturbing inner visions, it is the winter scene outside the window that transfixes her. In VREELUND, a transplanted Alaskan attends a memorial service for a friend, a mountain climber. The mother of toddler twins in DISTANCE discovers that the climate is not her harshest foe, when tragedy compels her to recall the bravery she and her husband had needed to travel so far together, into this land whose very extremity was the thing she loved and wanted. A pioneer charting frontier, Anderson surveys both the exotic terrain and the readily recognisable natives.

LC Classification NumberPS3551.N368I5 1989