Ebook {Epub PDF} Bear Down Bear North: Alaska Stories by Melinda Moustakis

 · A welcome tribute to working class lives, Bear Down, Bear North is a debut of impressive voices in the wilderness. — ForeWord Reviews. Melinda Moustakis' stunning debut book, Bear Down, Bear North is a muscular and lyrical short story collection of moxie and love of the land set in her home state of Alaska. Born in Alaska herself to a family with a homesteading legacy, Moustakis examines the near-mythological accounts of the Alaskan wilderness that are her inheritance and probes the question of what it means to live up to larger-than-life expectations for toughness and survival. A welcome tribute to working class lives, Bear Down, Bear North is a debut of impressive voices in the wilderness ForeWord Reviews. Melinda Moustakis’ stunning debut book, Bear Down, Bear North is a muscular and lyrical short story collection of moxie and love of the land set in her home state of Alaska. Moustakis’ stories are built out of short vignettes, revolving around rough childhoods, fishing, /5(19).

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Born in Alaska herself to a family with a homesteading legacy, Moustakis examines the near-mythological accounts of the Alaskan wilderness that are her inheritance and probes the question of what it means to live up to larger-than-life expectations for toughness and survival. MELINDA MOUSTAKIS is the author of Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award in Short Fiction and a 5 Under 35 selection by the National Book Foundation. Her work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Alaska Quarterly Review, Granta, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the O. Henry Award, the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, the NEA Literature Fellowship in Fiction, the Kenyon Review Fellowship at Kenyon College, the Jenny McKean Moore. The characters in Bear Down, Bear North are salt-tongued fishermen, fisherwomen, and hunters, scrappy storytellers who put themselves in the path of destruction--sometimes a harsh snowstorm, sometimes each other--and live to tell the tale. While backtrolling for kings on the Kenai River or filleting the catch of the Halibut Hellion with marvelous speed, these characters recount the gamble they took that didn't pay off, or they expound on how not only does Uncle Too-Soon need a girlfriend.