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His sometimes fearsome, always eccentric characters are presented by a voice certain of what it has to say.--W.P. Kinsella, author of \u003ci\u003eShoeless Joe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen these stories appeared in 1986, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Shirley Ann Grau, writing in the New Orleans \u003ci\u003eTimes-Picayune\u003c\/i\u003e, called them intriguing, just a bit off beat. \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003efound them appealing. Twenty-two years later, Anthony Bukoski revisits the backwaters of northern Wisconsin and Minnesota, where those who love deeply end up being hurt. In Two Heart or Superior, Wisconsin, or in Duluth, Minnesota, the lonely find comfort difficult to come by. Having slipped below an emotional freezing point, the heartbroken in these twelve stories do anything for love. Though it might mean taking a water-well driller as a second or third lover or kissing a foul recluse, some lucky hearts find the way to survive in Bukoski's frozen North.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Bukoski \u003c\/b\u003ehas published four other story collections, including \u003ci\u003eTime Between Trains \u003c\/i\u003e(Southern Methodist University Press), a 2003 \u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003eEditor's Choice selection, and \u003ci\u003eNorth of the Port \u003c\/i\u003e(Southern Methodist University Press, 2008). National Public Radio's \u003ci\u003eSelected Shorts \u003c\/i\u003eprogram and Wisconsin Public Radio's \u003ci\u003eChapter A Day \u003c\/i\u003eprogram have both aired readings of Bukoski's work. 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