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Rerun era, or, The dislocations / Joanna Howard.
Record details
- ISBN: 1944211675
- ISBN: 9781944211677
- Physical Description: 164 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
- Publisher: San Francisco : McSweeney's, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | "Rerun Era is a captivating, propulsive memoir about growing up in the environmentally and economically devastated rural flatlands of Oklahoma, the entwinement of personal memory and the memory of popular culture, and a family thrown into trial by lost love and illness that found common ground in the television. Told from the magnetic perspective of Joanna Howard's past selves from the late '70s and early '80s, Rerun Era circles the fascinating psyches of her part-Cherokee teamster truck-driving father, her women's libber mother, and her skateboarder, rodeo bull-riding teenage brother. Illuminating to our rural American present, and the way popular culture portrays the rural American past, Rerun Era perfectly captures the irony of growing up in rural America in the midst of nationalistic fantasies of small town local sheriffs and saloon girls, which manifested the urban cowboy, wild west theme-parks, and The Beverly Hillbillies"-- Publisher's description. |
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| Subject: | Howard, Joanna, 1975- Howard, Joanna, 1975- > Family. Women authors, American > Biography. Country life > Oklahoma. Coming of age > Oklahoma. |
| Genre: | Autobiographies. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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Author Notes
Rerun Era
Joanna Howard is a writer and translator from Miami, Oklahoma. She is the author of the novel Foreign Correspondent, the story collections On the Winding Stair and In the Colorless Round, and Field Glass, a collaborative novel written with Joanna Ruocco. She also co-translated Walls by Marcel Cohen and Cows by Frederic Boyer. She teaches in the literature PhD program at Denver University.
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