The Amish Farmer (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Vance Bourjaily
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: Indiana
- Principal Characters: Vance, Katie Jay, Noel Butler, Dawn Butler, Daniel
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Sex or sexuality, Literature, Rural or country life, Midwest, Writing, College life, Farms, farmers, or farming, Storytelling, Adultery, Lectures or lecturing, Students or student life, Amish
- Locales: Indiana
The Story
Vance teaches writing at an Indiana university. He has a student named Katie Jay from whom he tries to elicit a particular response by telling his class a story. He instructs them to pay particular attention to the crucial function of his story's narrative point of view. His story goes back to a time ten years earlier when one of his fellow graduate students, Noel Butler, called begging to see him because someone had just tried to kill him. As Vance awaited Noel's arrival, he remembered the circumstances under which he had met Butler and his beautiful wife, Dawn. Noel...
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