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In these thirteen stories, Steve Anderson captures what it meant to come of age in the late 1970s in working-class America. From a family’s West Virginia oil wells to trekking through abandoned small-town factories, to a Nevada campground vacation, adolescents find love, strengthen friendships, and create adventures. Each story is tinged with the stark challenges and raw beauty of growing up in a rural, post-Vietnam world of shuttered mills and sprawling train tracks. Freedom comes from trying to purchase beer underage, stealing a friend’s dad’s rusted “work” car for a joyride, and creating the world’s fastest sled for racing down a sheer quarry slope. There are stories of first love, captured against desert backdrops and in motel arcades. Most of all, this collection is about finding one’s way to adulthood in a richly revealed time and place in America’s Midwest.
1979: short story collection, by Steve Anderson- Amazon Sales Rank: #2083678 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-04
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .49" w x 5.00" l, .47 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 194 pages
About the Author Steve Anderson was raised in the Appalachian foothills of southern Ohio. After earning his degree in Computer Science from the Ohio State University, he later moved to Columbus, Ohio where he now resides. A musician and indie film maker in his part time, he has written, directed and produced several short feature films that have shown in Columbus movie theaters. He returns frequently to the hills and valleys surrounding his hometown in southern Ohio where he spends hours biking or sitting and listening to old man gossip in his father’s barber shop.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Enthralling stories of small town America; the writer really finds a groove By Ken Korczak There exists in America a special place where you'll find a transition zone between two distinct cultures.It's a mixture of the staid, straightforward practically of Midwesterners with the wild, mysterious blend of the Deep South as shaped by the edge of the Appalachian wilderness. That location is southeast Ohio.If a writer could capture the flavor of that unique mixture of Americana by telling the stories of ordinary people with a collection of short stories - anyone reading it would gain a certain deeper understanding of the American experience.It would also be incredibly entertaining!I'm delighted to report that Ohio author and film-maker STEVE ANDERSON has accomplished this subtle task with this collection of short stories titled: 1979.On the outside these tales would seem to be a series of coming of age "booze and boobs" vignettes featuring hormone-driven pre-adolescents and teenagers who are just waking up into a world where temptations abound - cheap wine, beer, sexy young girls, (and a few lusty older women), fast junky cars, cheap dope and the delicious discovery of that first kiss coupled with a daring grope of breast.However, by design or accident, these stories deliver more than just surface-level entertainment. Let's face it; each offering here is a little work of art. The writing often transcends the quality of being merely entertaining yarns to delivering that sense of:"There is something real here that strikes a chord. I'm not sure what it is, but I can feel it."I can't decide if Steve Anderson is one of those natural writer who is able to make stories like these just flow off his fingertips, or if he is one of those dogged writers, rewriters and revisers - but who cares? He writes extremely well.Reader will quickly forget that some guy is trying to enthrall them with words because we're swept away by each of these stories right from the first sentences, and before you know it, the story is done. Then you realize you have just forgotten that you were sitting in an uncomfortable chair squinting at words on a page because you were magically transported 35 years into the past to a small town in Ohio- it's as if you lived a few visceral hours through the eyes and feelings of the characters.I like writers who understand that if you just tell a story, everything else will take care of itself - and also comprehend the importance of character. Anderson's characters pop off the page, alive, fresh and vivid, almost certainly because he based his creations on real people he knew while growing up in the 1970s.I don't want you to think what you're going to get here is a lot of bland "Happy Days" nostalgia ala an idealized version of what life might have been like in 70s-era small town America. Anderson shows that, like the mean streets of Detroit, the tough hoods of New York or the gang infested barrios of Los Angeles - small towns can incubate their own festering brand of mean street cruelty.With the cool gaze of an unflinching observer, Anderson regales us with sweat-inducing scenes, such as a man getting brutally whip-beaten with a metal car antenna; a tornado breaking the back of cow; wild-eyed southern boys pulling off the pants of a young boy in an alley and then meting out a tooth-knocking thrashing before they nearly cut off his testicles with a dirty pocket knife.Yes, you'll find sweetness and sentiment here, good times and laughs, but there's also loneliness and boredom, betrayal and alienation, lust and violence - all part of an unvarnished look at the basic reality of life -- delivered to your doorstep courtesy the pen of ... one ... savvy ... wordsmith!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A great read when reading time is short By Neats 1979: short story collection is an anthology of thirteen coming of age stories set in America.The protagonist's in each story are experiencing the confusion, angst and exhilaration of adolescence. Each story is a novel in miniature, full of characters that could easily be expanded and developed and written in such a vivid way that I'm sure readers will find themselves being transported back into their own childhoods when they had, or witnessed similar encounters.The writing is picturesque and despite never having been to America, I felt as if I was there alongside them. Stone Quarry is a particularly good example of this. Seth, Pauly, Dewey and Toad have a sheet of corrugated tin roofing and decide to take it to the top of Chester Hill and use it as a sled. The journey down is a scree field of broken shale so it's not going to be a smooth ride but the boys bravado is greater than their common sense. The description of their perilous downhill journey is full of adrenaline and gives them a great story to tell afterwards.Steve Anderson has a great ability to get into his young character's heads and capture both their language and observations in exactly the right way. I loved the story of Shelly, drifting around a pool on her lilo, minding her own business and trying to keep her ear dry to prevent another ear infection, when she hears a commotion behind her. Turning round to see what's going on a boy asks if he can use her raft as he "ain't got no legs". The boys request is met with mockery and disbelief that someone would fake a medical condition (when she has a "real" one) just to try and get her lilo because they were too lazy to swim around. So imagine how she feels when she comes face to face with the same boy later and finds out that he was telling the truth.All in all I enjoyed reading these stories and they're great if you only have snippets of time to lose yourself in a story. I hope that there are more stories and maybe even a novel in the pipeline.With kind thanks to Steve Anderson for the review copy
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Witty and Revelatory By ReadingOtherPeople Comprised of 13 tales, Steve Anderson's charming "1979" is a satisfying read through and through. These tales all depict coming-of-age for several characters in the deep of working-class America. However, the setting is only a stand-in for the universal feelings and themes that are introduced in each of the short stories, rife with characters who are tackling the difficult road to adulthood and coming to terms of understanding what their lot in life might be.At the cusp of the decade that would see the birth of the personal computer and of punk music, each of the stories told by Anderson are about rebirth and recognition, to some extent. While the stark landscapes can come across as a bit disparate, the author manages to subvert the abandoned factories and rural surroundings and introduce characters that are not only realistic, but are, too, on the cusp of adulthood and a new age.There are the requisite themes that are often present in coming-of-age novels, from innocent sexual awakenings to glimpsing the truths that lie hidden behind existing facades, both physically and literally. Some stories are bit more risque than others, but once again, the actions fit into the tone of each of the stories. And, strangely enough, the issues facing the characters in "1979" are very similar to the ones facing the kids of today's technological age, albeit in slightly different contexts."1979" is a modern contemplation into what it means to mature and the importance of life experience in contributing to what the adult version of oneself will be. Good job, Anderson.Like this review? Read more like it at www.readingotherpeople.com
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