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- The Moon over Wapakoneta: Fictions and Science Fictions from Indiana and Beyond
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
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Lyric fictions by a master fabulist of America’s Midwest
The Moon over Wapakoneta is vintage Michael Martone, the visionary oracle of the American Midwest with the gift for discovering the marvelous in the mundane. In these stories Martone shows us how traveling across time zones from Ohio to Indiana is a form of time travel; how a beer bottle can serve as a kind of telescope, how Amish might power their spaceships with windmills as they travel through space and time. These stories capture the paradox of feeling that one is in the heart of the country while at the same time in the middle of nowhere, of natives who find themselves strangers in their once familiar, but now strange, lands.
On display is a love of obsolete technologies, small-town whimsy, home movies of proms and birthday parties, steam engines and baseball games. If Italo Calvino lived in Indiana rather than Italy, these are the fictions he might have made.
The Moon over Wapakoneta is vintage Michael Martone, the visionary oracle of the American Midwest with the gift for discovering the marvelous in the mundane. In these stories Martone shows us how traveling across time zones from Ohio to Indiana is a form of time travel; how a beer bottle can serve as a kind of telescope, how Amish might power their spaceships with windmills as they travel through space and time. These stories capture the paradox of feeling that one is in the heart of the country while at the same time in the middle of nowhere, of natives who find themselves strangers in their once familiar, but now strange, lands.
On display is a love of obsolete technologies, small-town whimsy, home movies of proms and birthday parties, steam engines and baseball games. If Italo Calvino lived in Indiana rather than Italy, these are the fictions he might have made.
Table of Contents
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- The Moon Over Wapakoneta
- pp. 1-9
- The Man's Watch
- pp. 15-21
- Seven Flag Days
- pp. 25-31
- A Bucket of Warm Spit
- pp. 34-50
- App ro x i m ate
- pp. 51-53
- Four Yearbook Signatures
- pp. 60-61
- Amish in Space
- pp. 62-69
- The 20th Century
- pp. 73-99
- Kodak: The Film Reviewed by Michael Martone
- pp. 100-103
- The Death of Derek Jeter
- pp. 107-121
- Gene Stratton-Porter Tries on Hats
- pp. 127-130
- Test Pattern
- pp. 152-156
- MM+MM+MM+MM: Footnotes in Search of a Story
- pp. 157-161
- Author's Note
- pp. 162-166
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 167-170
Additional Information
ISBN
9781573668798
Related ISBN(s)
9781573660686
MARC Record
OCLC
1028606985
Pages
180
Launched on MUSE
2018-09-10
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018