North of the Port: Stories

Anthony Bukoski

Southern Methodist University Press, 2008 - Fiction - 176 pages

As in his earlier works, the dozen stories in Bukoski's fifth collection depict the joys and woes of the Polish American immigrant families living either in the East End of Superior, Wisconsin, or in south Louisiana, where some Poles migrated to work the cane fields. Bukoski's lower middle-class families are sustained by their neighborhood (now in decline), by the Polish fraternal lodge, by their parochial school training, and, in some cases, by their abiding spiritual faith

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In this collection of 12 stories drawn from the experience of post-World War II Polish refugees in the U.S., Bukoski continues the themes and uses the style that characterizes previous work. Time is ...

Contents

• Gossamer Bloom: 1
• A Guide to American Trees: 15
• The Shadow Players: 43

About the author

Anthony Bukoski is the author of four other story collections, including Children of Strangers (SMU, 1993), Polonaise (SMU, 1999), and Time Between Trains (SMU, 2003), which was a Booklist Editors’ Choice. His stories have been featured on Wisconsin Public Radio, National Public Radio, and in live performance in the “Selected Shorts” series at Symphony Space in New York City. He teaches at his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin in his hometown of Superior, where his Polish émigré grandparents settled early in the last century.

Bibliographic information

• Title: North of the Port: Stories
• Author: Anthony Bukoski
• Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press, 2008
• ISBN: 0870745212, 9780870745218
• Length: 176 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Short Stories (single author)