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GOSSIP: RIGHT HERE IN RIVER CITY. (ORIGINAL STORIES) (SHORT STORY, NEBRASKA)
Abstract
The stories in this collection experiment with portraying small town life through the tales of the inhabitants in the style of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology. The stories reveal life in River City through the gossip of the past thirty years. Five subjects recur in these stories: parent-child relationships, old age, death, insanity, and romance and marriage. Each story falls into one or more of these categories. The stories use varying points of view, including first person, third person limited, and third person omniscient. Three stories have multiple first person narrators. The same characters and settings turn up in more than one story, and such dovetailing provides an underlying structure, although the stories remain understandable when read one at a time.
Subject Area
American literature
Recommended Citation
KING, KATHLEEN M, "GOSSIP: RIGHT HERE IN RIVER CITY. (ORIGINAL STORIES) (SHORT STORY, NEBRASKA)" (1984). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8423805.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8423805