Cold Flashes: Literary Snapshots of Alaska

As the old adage goes, "if you can't say it in a few pages, you won't in a hundred." The selections in Cold Flashes—very short prose and black-and-white photographs—embody perfectly this transparency, thrift, and restraint. Found here are highly polished micro-narratives, both fiction and nonfiction, and a series of eloquent and artistic halftones that capture their sizeable subjects in a nutshell. By minimizing the exposition, the selections stimulate the imagination to reflect on the rich diversity of people and places that make up Alaska. To be savored piecemeal at coffee shops, on the bus, or while waiting in line, the images and text in Cold Flashes will resonate with both the reader and each other, fusing into something profound yet elusive.

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Cold Flashes: Literary Snapshots of Alaska

As the old adage goes, "if you can't say it in a few pages, you won't in a hundred." The selections in Cold Flashes—very short prose and black-and-white photographs—embody perfectly this transparency, thrift, and restraint. Found here are highly polished micro-narratives, both fiction and nonfiction, and a series of eloquent and artistic halftones that capture their sizeable subjects in a nutshell. By minimizing the exposition, the selections stimulate the imagination to reflect on the rich diversity of people and places that make up Alaska. To be savored piecemeal at coffee shops, on the bus, or while waiting in line, the images and text in Cold Flashes will resonate with both the reader and each other, fusing into something profound yet elusive.

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Cold Flashes: Literary Snapshots of Alaska

Cold Flashes: Literary Snapshots of Alaska

by Michael Engelhard (Editor)
Cold Flashes: Literary Snapshots of Alaska

Cold Flashes: Literary Snapshots of Alaska

by Michael Engelhard (Editor)

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As the old adage goes, "if you can't say it in a few pages, you won't in a hundred." The selections in Cold Flashes—very short prose and black-and-white photographs—embody perfectly this transparency, thrift, and restraint. Found here are highly polished micro-narratives, both fiction and nonfiction, and a series of eloquent and artistic halftones that capture their sizeable subjects in a nutshell. By minimizing the exposition, the selections stimulate the imagination to reflect on the rich diversity of people and places that make up Alaska. To be savored piecemeal at coffee shops, on the bus, or while waiting in line, the images and text in Cold Flashes will resonate with both the reader and each other, fusing into something profound yet elusive.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781602230941
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Publication date: 07/15/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 210
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Michael Engelhard is a writer and wilderness guide whose work has appeared in Outside and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is also the editor of several anthologies, including Wild Moments.

Table of Contents

Contents Photographs Acknowledgments Introduction Labrador Tea And Then the Earth Moves Redoubt’s Ash Hunger Mountain Tikchik Fat of the Land Soul Food Our Just Getting Going Mrs. Weasley Specialization (Hammer Museum, Haines) Outside of Eden Wind Letter from the Bush 57 Reasons I Love Valerie (by Go-boy) Mistress of the Blue Coming Clean Eclipse Coffee Talk You Don’t Lose Your Woman Tough Times on Denali Here Comes Ol’ Flattop Blue in the Face The Guide The Cold Grimshaw on the Ice Matanuska Green Christmas on the Fortymile The F-Month A Special Place (with deference to Aldo Leopold) Yukon Rising Turnagain Open Water Rink Rats Memories of Smokewood What I Knew on the Longest Day (Fort Yukon, 1961) Blood Ties Legacies Candles Don’t Always Set the Mood Talking Wolf Hell-bent for Leather Howling Dog Northern Flyway Village of Old Believers Anaktuvuk Rose Eagles Every Day Those Who Saw This Coming Anchorage, 2110 XtraTuf Biking Cool The Bra Brawl Just a BB Gun Kaktovik Fog Parcel Pickup Half-House Apostle of End Times Escape from Planet Alaska About Ravens M-E-W Gulls A Cliffside Whale Moose Legs Anima Mundi Kuiu Dreamtime Ghost Story A Boat Named Coffin Contributors
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