Tales of Resistance

by Peter Leach

The tellers of Tales of Resistance speak in voices imagined from archival material or heard in Missouri by the author, a returned native of St. Louis. They act out personal dramas set off by social forces that seem beyond their comprehension or control, but in some way or other they resist. In one an Ozark boy tells of his sexual initiation by a Normal School girl who becomes a ringleader in the pickers' strike against the strawberry growers,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881515214
• ISBN13: 9781881515210
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Texas Review Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"