A dying mill town, beautifully evoked in all its gritty reality and lost luster: this is the setting for Tracy Winn's remarkable debut collectionWinn writes with clarity and keen perception; her stories come together like a mosiac to create a compelling, deeply-textured world. You won't easily forget these characters, mill owners and union organizers, hairdressers and immigrants, whose lives are full of loss and discovery, regret and beauty, and whose stories brush against one another, overlap, and intersect in unexpected ways. These are deeply satisfying stories, subtle, intelligent, and beautifully crafted. - Kim Edwards, author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter Tracy Winn's depiction of change over time is masterful, tracing the years after World War II in Lowell, Massachusetts, when the textile industry moved south, the mills went condo, and a way of life ended for workers and owners, their children and their city. Split by the great Merrimack River, the geography of the city emblemizes the discontinuity between past and future, the class gulf between Belvidere Hill and the Bleachery, and the chasm of incomprehension between the women and men in these stories. Nothing is as simple as it seems in Tracy Winn's world. - Jack Beatty, senior editor, Atlantic Monthly I love how fully Tracy Winn understands her characters and the complicated transactions between them in these richly imagined, eloquently written stories. Mrs. Somebody Somebody is rich in surprises and moments of unlikely beauty. A splendid debut. - Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street A rare achievement. Tracy Winn's characters struggle with unexpected losses and damaging habits, rarely triumphing over the troubles that fill their lives, but always questioning the hard truths that hold them in place. - C. Michael Curtis, senior fiction editor, Atlantic Monthly
TRACY WINN earned her M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She is the recipient of grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Barbara Deming Memorial Trust, and the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation, and fellowships from the MacDowell and the Millay colonies. Her stories have appeared in the New Orleans Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, and Western Humanities Review, among other venues. She works with Gaining Ground, a local non-profit farm that gives its produce to local shelters and meal programs. She lives near Boston with her husband and daughter.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780870745546 |
| ISBN 10 | 0870745549 |
| Title | Mrs. Somebody Somebody |
| Author | Tracy Winn |
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| Publisher | Southern Methodist University Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2009-03-18 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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