I Was a RevolutionaryAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 18 August 2015
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A richly textured, diverse collection of stories that illuminate the heartland and America itself, exploring questions of history, race, and identity.
Grounded in place, spanning the Civil War to the present day, the stories in I Was a Revolutionary capture the roil of history through the eyes of an unforgettable cast of characters: the visionaries and dreamers, radical farmers and socialist journalists, quack doctors and protestors who haunt the past and present landscape of the state of Kansas.
In these storieswhich have appeared in Zoetrope All-Story, The Best New American Voices, FiveChapters, Story, American Short Fiction, and Ninth Letterthe award-winning writer Andrew Malan Milward crafts an epic mosaic of the American experience, tracing how we live amid the inconvenient ghosts of history. The Burning of Lawrence vibrates with the raw terror of a town pillaged by pro-Confederate raiders. O Death recalls the desperately hard journey of the ExodustersAfrican-American migrants who came to Kansas to escape oppression in the South. And, in the collections haunting title piece, a professor of Kansas history surveys his decades-long slide from radicalism to complacency, a shift that parallels the landscape around him.
Using his own home state as a prism through which to view both a nations history and our own universal battles as individuals, Milward has created one of the freshest and most complex story collections in recent years.
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