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Read This and Tell Me What It Says Hardcover - 1995

by Ansay, A. Manette


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Author of the widely acclaimed novel Vinegar Hill, A. Manette Ansay returns to the fictional town of Holly's Field, Wisconsin, and the midwestern landscape that surrounds it in her first full-length story collection, Read This and Tell Me What It Says. Here are the lives of rural people struggling to make sense of the isolated and often intensely religious worlds in which they live. Marie, a young wife and mother, recalls the effects of a statutory rape trial on her small community. Stuart, a devout teenage boy, dares to rename himself Start, the only significant thing he has ever done without first consulting God. Widowed Eliza discovers her husband's ghost in the bathroom, flipping through pages of the Popular Mechanics magazines she had thrown out after his death. With grace and compassion, Ansay reveals the extraordinary interior lives of ordinary people. The result is a rare glimpse into the complex human equation of spiritual loneliness, desire, and hope.

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  • Title Read This and Tell Me What It Says
  • Author Ansay, A. Manette
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 142
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA
  • Date 1995
  • ISBN 9780870239885

About the author

Assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University, A. Manette Ansay is the 1992 winner of the Nelson Algren Prize for the title story of Read This and Tell Me What It Says. She is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Her second novel, Sister, is forthcoming from Morrow.
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University of Massachusetts Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 142 pages. Short stories. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Author of the widely acclaimed novel Vinegar Hill, A. Manette Ansay returns to the fictional town of Holly's Field, Wisconsin, and the midwestern landscape that surrounds it in her first full-length story collection, Read This and Tell Me What It Says.Here are the lives of rural people struggling to make sense of the isolated and often intensely religious worlds in which they live. Marie, a young wife and mother, recalls the effects of a statutory rape trial on her small community. Stuart, a devout teenage boy, dares to rename himself Start, the only significant thing he has ever done without first consulting God. Widowed Eliza discovers her husband's ghost in the bathroom, flipping through pages of the Popular Mechanics magazines she had thrown out after his death.With grace and compassion,… Read More
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