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" The plain sense of things / "
Pamela Carter Joern.
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BL
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953325
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b707695
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| Main Entry
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Joern, Pamela Carter,1948-
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The plain sense of things /\ Pamela Carter Joern.
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| Publication Statement
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Lincoln :: University of Nebraska Press,, 2008.
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| Series Statement
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Flyover fiction
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1 online resource (xii, 221 pages)
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| ISBN
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0803218575
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: 1281958220
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: 6611958223
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: 9780803218574
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: 9781281958228
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: 9786611958220
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9780803216198
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| Contents
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Acknowledgments; Ghost Town; Hard Times Ahead; Sliding Down the Milky Way; Be Careful What You Wish For; Elitch Gardens; Never Mind; Good-bye, Old Kid; Pipe Dreams; Wonderful Words of Life; Lost Boy; How Is It Where You Are?; Fibber McGee's Closet; Secrets; Saved; I Wonder Why-why-why-why; Little Deaths & Minor Resurrections; Love Songs.
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| Abstract
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In prose as clean and beautiful as the stark prairie setting, The Plain Sense of Things tells the stories of three generations of a western Nebraska family. These tales of sorrow and hope are connected by the sinews of need and flawed love that keep families together. A farm wife struggles to support her children after the death of her second husband; a young woman grapples with the shift from girlhood to motherhood; World War II wreaks havoc on those left behind; and a failing farmstead breaks a family's heart. Amid hardship and change, these interwoven stories illuminate the resilience and d.
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Nebraska, Fiction.
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Nebraska.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.6
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PS3610.O25P55 2008eb
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