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Dakota : a spiritual geography

Author: Kathleen Norris
Publisher: New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1993.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Norris reveals the contradictions of small town life on the Great Plains, where gracious hospitality blends with provincial wariness, local history is valued by writers, and truth and myth collide.
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Named Person: Kathleen Norris; Kathleen Norris
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kathleen Norris
ISBN: 0395633206 9780395633205
OCLC Number: 26503101
Description: viii, 224 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: The Beautiful Places --
Weather Report: January 17 --
Deserts --
Weather Report: February 10 --
Dakota: Or, Gambling, Garbage, and the New Ghost Dance --
Patagonia --
A Starfish in Mott --
Weather Report: March 25 --
Gatsby on the Plains --
Weather Report: April 14 --
Closed In --
The Holy Use of Gossip --
Weather Report: May 19 --
Can You Tell The Truth in a Small Town? --
Weather Report: June 30 --
Ghosts: A History --
Evidence of Failure --
Shadows 'n' Owls: A Message from Jim Sullivan --
Cana --
Where I Am --
Star-Time --
Frontier --
How I Came to Drink My Grandmother's Piano --
Status: Or, Should Farmers Read Plato? --
Weather Report: July 3 --
Rain --
Sea Change --
God Is in the Details: Shortgrass --
Seeing --
Weather Report: August 9 --
Getting to Hope --
In the Open --
Blessing --
Weather Report: September 3 --
My Monasticism --
God Is in the Details: Winter Wheat --
Weather Report: October 2 --
Is It You, Again? --
Weather Report: November 2 --
Dust --
Monks at Play --
Blue --
Weather Report: December 4 --
Weather Report: December 7.
Responsibility: Kathleen Norris.

Abstract:

Norris reveals the contradictions of small town life on the Great Plains, where gracious hospitality blends with provincial wariness, local history is valued by writers, and truth and myth collide.

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