Silent Passengers (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Larry Woiwode
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Time of Work: The 1960’s to the 1980’s
- Setting: The American Midwest
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life
- Locales: Midwest (U.S.)
Larry Woiwode is known primarily as a master of the novel; however, he has also worked throughout his career to establish himself as a serious and respected practitioner of the short story. His first collection, The Neumiller Stories (1990), functioned both as a collection of individual stories and as material attendant to his novels Beyond the Bedroom Wall (1975) and Born Brothers (1989). With Silent Passengers, however, Woiwode brings together ten stories that cohere not because of their shared subject matter and character-lives, but because of their shared...
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