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- catalog abstract ""In 15 stories, Alaska looms as a presence that variously is vast and claustrophobic, dangerous and freeing, exhilarating and depressing. A long-time resident frets over and envies a newcomer whose hunger for wild and solitude defies common sense. Elsewhere, an aging hippy tries to woo his estranged daughter with moosemeat pizza and bleached pelican skull knickknacks, but she's a creature of civilization's comforts, committed to Walkman music and double-scoop ice-cream sundaes. Her husband is away drilling for oil and a resentful wife must cope alone with an erupting volcano; a woman leaves the bush for Anchorage and abandons a friend in the process; a miserly recluse wins the lottery; and a thief discovers his girlfriend can kill without remorse. The prose here is pleasantly understated, the tenor of Alaskan existence often is transmitted ("You don't live in a small Alaskan town for the job you can get; you do whatever job you can in order to be able to live in such a place.") and many descriptions, such as shrimp processing in an Alaskan cannery, are authentically rendered. But hampered by obvious and trite plotting, the collection doesn't rise above merely competent. A commercial fisherman in Alaska, Lord wrote The Compass Inside Ourselves."--Publisher's Weekly.".
- catalog contributor b3527611.
- catalog coverage "Alaska Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "Alaska Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog created "1991.".
- catalog date "1991".
- catalog date "1991.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1991.".
- catalog description ""In 15 stories, Alaska looms as a presence that variously is vast and claustrophobic, dangerous and freeing, exhilarating and depressing. A long-time resident frets over and envies a newcomer whose hunger for wild and solitude defies common sense. Elsewhere, an aging hippy tries to woo his estranged daughter with moosemeat pizza and bleached pelican skull knickknacks, but she's a creature of civilization's comforts, committed to Walkman music and double-scoop ice-cream sundaes. Her husband is away drilling for oil and a resentful wife must cope alone with an erupting volcano; a woman leaves the bush for Anchorage and abandons a friend in the process; a miserly recluse wins the lottery; and a thief discovers his girlfriend can kill without remorse. The prose here is pleasantly understated, the tenor of Alaskan existence often is transmitted ("You don't live in a small Alaskan town for the job you can get; you do whatever job you can in order to be able to live in such a place.") and many descriptions, such as shrimp processing in an Alaskan cannery, are authentically rendered. But hampered by obvious and trite plotting, the collection doesn't rise above merely competent. A commercial fisherman in Alaska, Lord wrote The Compass Inside Ourselves."--Publisher's Weekly.".
- catalog description "Survival -- The winner -- Marks -- The lady with the sled dog -- A guy like me -- Visqueen winter -- Imitations -- The bucket of mice -- Waiting for the thaw -- Volcano -- Nature lessons -- Small potatoes -- A true story -- Snowblind -- Why I live at the Natural History Museum.".
- catalog extent "161 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Survival.".
- catalog identifier "0918273846 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Survival.".
- catalog issued "1991".
- catalog issued "1991.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Minneapolis : Coffee House Press ; St. Paul, Minn. : Consortium Book Sales and Distribution [distributor],".
- catalog relation "Survival.".
- catalog spatial "Alaska Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Alaska Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 20".
- catalog subject "PS3562.O727 S87 1991".
- catalog tableOfContents "Survival -- The winner -- Marks -- The lady with the sled dog -- A guy like me -- Visqueen winter -- Imitations -- The bucket of mice -- Waiting for the thaw -- Volcano -- Nature lessons -- Small potatoes -- A true story -- Snowblind -- Why I live at the Natural History Museum.".
- catalog title "Survival : stories / by Nancy Lord.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".