Anthony Bukoski

• Nov-1993
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• Dec-1998
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Polonaise: Stories by Anthony Bukoski

The twelve short stories in Bukoski's third collection are both a dirge and an homage to a passing way of life for the East End neighborhood of Superior, Wisconsin. "Hurry, our closing is imminent," a ...

• May-2003
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"This collection stands as a lovely and bittersweet tribute to a small corner of America." -- The Dallas Morning NewsIn his fourth collection, Anthony Bukoski brings to life once again the working-class town of Superior, Wisconsin, telling thirteen w...

• May-2008
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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...

• Sep-2008
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Mr. Bukoski is a sure-handed, lyrical writer.-The New York Times Book Review I am delighted Anthony Bukoski's first powerful stories have been reissued in a new, expanded edition. His sometimes fearsome, always eccentric characters are presented by a...

• Sep-2018
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Bukoski does for Superior's East End what Raymond Carver did for the down-and-out of the Pacific Northwest or Pete Hamill did with the Irish in New York. He's brought back to life Superior's Polish Americans and the blue-collar community from its boo...

• Apr-2021
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Like stones cast into a river, these sixteen moving, intimate stories illuminate how devotion and degeneration ripple through a working-class Polish American community in the postindustrial Midwest. At the heart of the collection is Eddie “The ...

• May-2025
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The Thief of Words is filled with desperate runaways, the unhappily married, and the displaced. They often long for happiness but struggle to explain—even to themselves—what that would entail. The lightly interconnected stories in this rive...