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A dozen stories deal with a heartbroken widower, hunters, farmers, and truck drivers living in Minnesota
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"Short stories like these make you feel good about American writing."--Kerry Luft, Chicago Tribune
"A memorable assemblage of meticulously rendered stories that generate warmth, humor and compassion."--Lucas Carpenter, Atlanta Journal and Constitution
"... a graceful collection, one that views America's heartland with a charitable but candid eye."--Andy Solomon, New York Times Book Review
A Gravestone Made of Wheat is a collection of stories set against the beauty of Midwestern farm landscapes and small-town life. In every story Weaver brings sympathy and sensitivity to the rhythm and variety of American life-- illuminating the lives of the down-and-outs and the indomitable among us-- and in the process he solidifies his promise as one of our most gifted new writers.
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"A memorable assemblage of meticulously rendered stories that generate warmth, humor and compassion."--Lucas Carpenter, Atlanta Journal and Constitution
"... a graceful collection, one that views America's heartland with a charitable but candid eye."--Andy Solomon, New York Times Book Review
A Gravestone Made of Wheat is a collection of stories set against the beauty of Midwestern farm landscapes and small-town life. In every story Weaver brings sympathy and sensitivity to the rhythm and variety of American life-- illuminating the lives of the down-and-outs and the indomitable among us-- and in the process he solidifies his promise as one of our most gifted new writers.
Will Weaver is the winner of the McKnight and the Bush Foundation's prizes for fiction. His stories "Heart of the Fields" and "Dispersal," which are included in A Gravestone Made of Wheat, were selected as two of the Ten Best Short Stories of 1984 and 1985 by the PEN Fiction Project. Weaver lives in Bemidji, Minnesota.
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0671670972
- ISBN 13 9780671670979
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