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Contents
The shadow in the pond -- The loon -- His father's son -- Plastic edge to plastic edge -- Mountain man, mountain man -- Oatmeal -- Learning the truth of things -- The peculiar vision of Mrs. Winkler -- October -- The secret -- Ladybug, fly away home -- The follower -- Blue transfer -- Places we loast -- Tuesdays -- Three against the dark -- The middle place -- A season for going
Abstract
Mary Hedin writes luminous stories about people we have known in times and places we thought were lost. Full of absorbing everyday details, incandescent flashes of fantasy, and rich layers of imagery, her fiction is sometimes dark and disturbing, but the vision is always humane. A radiant sense of place is dominant in her work–the mountains, vineyards, and suburbs of California, and the lake and farm land of her native Minnesota. Of her writing she says, 'For me it is a central need, a basic drive. I can exist only so long before I must sift through the mysteries of human behavior and clarify my experiences.' Her poetry is widely published, and her fiction has been included in Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories. Hedin's variegated, intricately textured collection reflects the intensity and diversity of her life as a professional writer and poet, teacher on the Humanities faculty at College of Marin, wife of a busy general physician, mother of four, community activist, and hostess/cook par excellence for a large, extended family.—Back cover.
Series Title
Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction
Award Date
1979
Judge
Gardner, John
Publication Date
1980
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
City
Iowa City
Total Pages
249
ISBN of Print Version
9780877450993
Rights
Copyright © 1980 by The University of Iowa. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Recommended Citation
Hedin, Mary. Fly Away Home: Eighteen Short Stories. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1980.
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