{"product_id":"the-moon-over-wapakoneta-fictions-and-science-fictions-from-indiana-and-beyond-9781573660686","title":"The Moon over Wapakoneta: Fictions and Science","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLyric fictions by a master fabulist of America's Midwest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Moon over Wapakoneta\u003c\/i\u003e is vintage Michael Martone, the visionary oracle of the American Midwest with the gift for discovering the marvelous in the mundane. In these stories Martone shows us how traveling across time zones from Ohio to Indiana is a form of time travel; how a beer bottle can serve as a kind of telescope, how Amish might power their spaceships with windmills as they travel through space and time. These stories capture the paradox of feeling that one is in the heart of the country while at the same time in the middle of nowhere, of natives who find themselves strangers in their once familiar, but now strange, lands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn display is a love of obsolete technologies, small-town whimsy, home movies of proms and birthday parties, steam engines and baseball games. If Italo Calvino lived in Indiana rather than Italy, these are the fictions he might have made.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA playfully poetic exploration of place, proximity, relativity, and time. Refreshingly original and poignantly sentimental. A feast for the mind. Some of my favorite bits were ‘Four Yearbook Signatures' and ‘Girl Who Cried Sweetly.'\"\" - Chinelo Okparanta, author of \u003ci\u003eUnder the Udala Trees\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHappiness, Like Water: Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"In \u003ci\u003eMoon over Wapakoneta\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Martone has turned his literary gaze to the moon and the stars and we're all the luckier for it. Within these pages are Amish astronauts, atomic clocks, moon museums, and holographic movie stars. Once again, the Mark Twain of metafiction offers us a collection of fictions and beautiful universes—including our own.\"\" - Alexander Weinstein, author of \u003ci\u003eChildren of the New World: Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Oh, this world is wondrous and strange. Michael Martone, the Indiana trickster, makes amusements of a serious, silliest, surrealist sort. In this, his book of games, Martone electrifies distances across outer space; lost lusts; the lore of locomotives; the love, love, love of literature and all its lands. A journey far beyond.\"\" - Samantha Hunt, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Dark: Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMr. Splitfoot\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041444725079,"sku":"9781573660686","price":14.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781573660686.jpg?v=1750950307","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-moon-over-wapakoneta-fictions-and-science-fictions-from-indiana-and-beyond-9781573660686","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}