Background
Monroe, Debra F. was born on July 15, 1958 in Aberdeen, South Dakota, United States.
(A collection of short stories by the author of The Source...)
A collection of short stories by the author of The Source of Trouble includes ""The World's Great Love Novels,"" ""Crossroads Cafe,"" and ""Royal Blues,"" about women seeking love in a land of cold winds and irresponsible men. 12,500 first printing.
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(From award-winning writer Debra Monroe comes a funny and ...)
From award-winning writer Debra Monroe comes a funny and poignant story of a woman's quest to find a physical and emotional home. Maddie, a refugee from two marriages, wanders from place to place seeking new options and new connections. She eventually settles in a cozy old neighborhood in Tucson, gets a job, and contemplates her life so far: a mother who's been missing for two decades, a father she rarely sees, two sisters married to the same men for fifteen years, and a circle of quirky, spiteful, but loyal friends. Just as she's trying to decide whether she's actually "at home" in Tucson, she receives a phone call that sends her on another journey -- one that takes her both physically and emotionally into the past and affords her a glimpse of a newfangled future.
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(Winner of The Flannery O'Connor Award, this critically ac...)
Winner of The Flannery O'Connor Award, this critically acclaimed debut collection features ten stories set in the plains of the Midwest and the honky-tonks of the South. This is a world where happiness is half heartache, dreams dwindle, and infidelity becomes just another way to extend the family. Characters search in vain for "the one incident you can zero down to as the source of trouble, and everything bad that happens after if happens because of it." Witty and sly, exciting and powerful, these are stories about people who understand their own complicity belatedly, but never too late. Illuminated in these affecting, self-revealing stories is the measure of hope and healing that lies in every heart and coupling, no matter the trespass.
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(In the lavishly acclaimed collection of short stories A W...)
In the lavishly acclaimed collection of short stories A Wild, Cold State, Flannery O'Connor Award - winning author Debra Monroe takes us into the lives of women striving for love and emotional fulfillment amidst a forbidding topography of glacial winds and stormY, unpredictable men. Set in rural Wisconsin, these interwoven tales run a gamut of moods and textures, ranging from the warmly nostalgic "The World's Great Love Novels, " in which the young narrator observes the extreme compromises adults make in the name of love, to the hard-edged and gritty "Crossroads Cafe, " in which a waitress searches for tenderness, though nothing in her life so far suggests that tenderness is available. Rendered in a spare and poetic style and marked by a nuanced grasp of relationships and the vagaries of desire, the stories in A Wild, Cold State offer a familiar and resonant portrayal of the complexities of everyday life and the fundamental human need for connection.
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Monroe, Debra F. was born on July 15, 1958 in Aberdeen, South Dakota, United States.
Bachelor in English, University Wisconsin, Eau Claire, 1980. Master of Arts in English, Kansas State University, 1985. Doctor of Philosophy in English, University Utah, 1990.
Professor University North Carolina, Greensboro, 1990—1992, Texas State University, San Marcos, since 1992. Presenter in field.
(In the lavishly acclaimed collection of short stories A W...)
(A collection of short stories by the author of The Source...)
(Winner of The Flannery O'Connor Award, this critically ac...)
(From award-winning writer Debra Monroe comes a funny and ...)
Daughter of Allen Louis and Arlene Louise (Tyman McElligott) Frigen. 1 adopted child Marie.