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Michael Martone
Book List in Order: 15 titles
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Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List, Enlarged Edition: Indiana Stories
- Oct-1993
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"Michael Martone writes with deep affection for the ordinary. In his hands, the quotidian dreams of the American heartland are transformed... " ―Louise Erdrich
"This is a marvelous book.... What a gift!" ―Richard Rhodes
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The Blue Guide to Indiana
- Sep-2001
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An ersatz travel book for the Hoosier StateThe master of the nearly true is back with The Blue Guide to Indiana, an ersatz travel book for the Hoosier State. Michael Martone, whose trademark is the blurring of the lines between fact and fiction, has ...
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Michael Martone
- Oct-2005
- / General Fiction
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Michael Martone is its own appendix, comprising fifty contributors notes, each of which identifies in exorbitant biographical detail the author of the other forty-nine. It is full of fanciful anecdotes and preposterous reminiscences. Michael Martone'...
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Double-wide
- Mar-2007
- / Literary
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In this one volume, readers have access to the two decades of Hoosier mythology created by Michael Martone, one of Indiana's most recognized voices. This book collects work from Martone's first five books: Alive and Dead in Indiana, Safety Patrol,...
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Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fictions from the Flyover
- Aug-2009
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Do Midwesterners have a peculiar way of looking at the world? Is there something not quite right about the way they see things? For such a normal place, the heartland has produced some writers who take a most individual approach to storytelling. A...
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Four for a Quarter
- Sep-2011
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Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Four is the magic number in Michael Martone’s Four for a Quarter. In subject -- four fifth Beatles, four tie knots, four retellings of the first Xerox, even the sex lives of the Fantastic Four -- a...
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Seeing Eye
- Apr-2013
- / General Fiction
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A collection of short stories, most of them set in Indiana, focuses on the meddling of fact and fiction and includes a dozen satiric -- but also sympathetic -- tales written in the persona of Indiana’s famous son, Dan Quayle....
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Alive and Dead in Indiana
- Jun-2013
- / Literary
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Alive and Dead in Indiana is a collection of stories focusing on eight famous Americans who have had close connections to Indiana. It is a blend fact and fiction that casts new light on the personalities and the settings....
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Safety Patrol
- Jun-2013
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In his second collection, Martone focuses on our lack of safety, equating it with our loss of innocence. He accents the fragility of our arrangements, the randomness of disaster, the vulnerability of anyone crossing the road.Thus in “King of Safety...
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Winesburg, Indiana
- Jul-2015
- / General Fiction
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In the mythical town of Winesburg, Indiana, there lives a cleaning lady who can conjure up the ghost of Billy Sunday, a lascivious holy man with an unusual fetish and a burgeoning flock, a park custodian who collects the scat left by aliens, and a...
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The Moon over Wapakoneta
- Sep-2018
- / Literary
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Lyric fictions by a master fabulist of America’s MidwestThe Moon over Wapakoneta is vintage Michael Martone, the visionary oracle of the American Midwest with the gift for discovering the marvelous in the mundane. In these stories Martone shows us ...
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The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone
- Oct-2020
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"The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone is a Midwestern mythology that celebrates facts, fiction, and the impermanence of art. Inspired by the real-life pioneer of early aviation who invented the art...