The Capital of Kansas City: stories - Softcover

Gildner, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 194349102X ISBN 13: 9781943491025

Publisher: BKMK Press, 2016

Synopsis

Fiction. In Gary Gildner's fourth collection of stories, composition teacher Wanda Delight, in heels long and sharp enough to pierce a rattler, loses her heart to prime example Timmy Sheean; WWII vet Sergeant Major George Prolly flees Piney Woods Rest in his wheelchair, leaving behind Miss Flambeau the exotic dancer; Kansas City lawyer Mary Beth Urquhart makes her way among her long-ago college poetry professor, truck driver Marvin Gaye, and the cologned-up, slippery father of a White Sox pitching phenom. Elsewhere, the bishop's teenaged nephew and yard boy, "Samson" Tuohy, is smitten by Professor Singh's young cello-playing wife Isabel—plus there's Polish beauty Beata, old bronc rider Ray Wheeler, Aunt Gussie, the king and queen of the swans, and many more.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Nobel-laureate Alice Munro has said about Gary Gildner's work: "There's such a good feeling about these stories--that the writer knows his people, the whole texture of their lives, in different lights, that he'll take you a long way into them, and you'll always be surprised and satisfied in the right way, never tricked or betrayed." ''Sadness and comic insight reminiscent of J.D.Salinger inform these subtly moving stories.Gildner is a master of the form.'' —Rick DeMarinis, El Paso Twilight

About the Author:

Gary Gildner is the author of twenty books, including poetry, fiction, and memoir. His previous poetry collection, The Bunker in the Parsley Fields, won the Iowa Poetry Prize. His other awards include the William Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke, and Pushcart prizes and the National Magazine Award for fiction. He has held fellowships from the NEA, Breadloaf, MacDowell, Yaddo, and Fulbright lectureships to Poland and Czechoslovakia. He lives in Idaho's Clearwater Mountains.

About this edition

• Publisher: BKMK Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 194349102X
• ISBN 13: 9781943491025
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200