Our Working Lives
by Campbell, Bonnie Jo; Smith, LarryFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-10-01
Publisher(s): Bottom Dog Pr
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Summary
Fiction. In this anthology, through a variety of voices and venues, work and the workplace provide setting, metaphor, and meaning -- Bonnie Jo Campbell. In most ways this...is a perfect model of the American short story of work: intimate with the working experience, its work and culture, giving respect and space for the worker to speak his/her grief and joy within a collective sensibility, creating a form that exposes the effects of oppression and how character can be molded in resistance. It relies on a vibrant intimacy of voice through an oral, first-person narration and includes memoir to allow the life experience to find its own organic form -- Larry Smith.
Table of Contents
| Introductions | p. 5 |
| Sauerkraut Soup | p. 19 |
| Death of a Junk Peddler | p. 30 |
| Cannery Night | p. 40 |
| Doc | p. 50 |
| Shrapnel | p. 59 |
| Bonus | p. 69 |
| Miss America | p. 77 |
| The Walls of St. Vincent | p. 81 |
| Alluvial Deposits | p. 92 |
| Turn the Radio to a Gospel Station | p. 102 |
| One Version of the Story | p. 109 |
| Layoff | p. 114 |
| Expression of Our People | p. 128 |
| Double Shift | p. 142 |
| Clack, Clack, Clack | p. 157 |
| The Habit of Despair | p. 164 |
| Stopping in Grace | p. 173 |
| Holy Water | p. 183 |
| Hawk | p. 191 |
| Square | p. 198 |
| What We Won't Do | p. 212 |
| Biographical Sketches of Authors | p. 221 |
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