Polonaise
stories
by Anthony Bukoski
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The twelve stories in Bukoski's third collection are both a dirge and an homage to a passing way of life for the East End neighborhood of Superior, Wisconsin. "Hurry, our closing is imminent," a priest in the single remaining Catholic church exhorts a Polish emigre seaman at the start of a confession.
On the streets and docks of the world's most inland port, Bukoski's characters struggle to understand what went wrong in a city where everything is closing or decaying. Sailors return with diseases of body and soul, a frantic woman searches for her child lost almost a half-century ago, a self-deluded widower seeks love over the telephone, and a compulsive braggart shrinks in stature as his chest expands with the ever more elaborate lies he tells.
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Polish Americans, Fiction, Polish-American literature| Edition | Availability |
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Polonaise: Stories
January 1999, Southern Methodist University Press
Hardcover
in English
- 1st ed edition
0870744348 9780870744341
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Polonaise: stories
1998, Southern Methodist University Press
in English
- 1st ed.
0870744348 9780870744341
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