 SILVER
THAW and Selected Stories
By Ron Johnson
SILVER
THAW is set in the late '60s in the Great
Central Valley of California. It's a story of four
friends forced to confront the moral, sexual and political
parameters which will define their adult lives. There
is the loss of innocence precipitated by the Vietnam
War, but the main battle is an internal struggle that
each must encounter and confront within themselves.
ART is a quiet, independent-minded college student
who wants to become a high school shop teacher. He
has recently become intimate with JUNE, a survivor
of the working class trailor park, where her mother
died of alcoholism. She is attending college to escape
the pain of her past. Her roomate HONEY is seeking
a life with a man she can believe in. An elemental,
aggressive woman, sexually confident, HONEY is a woman
by whom men define themselves. She is falling in love
with JESS, who is finishing college under the Army
ROTC program. JESS wants a part of Vietnam, and he
wants HONEY. The war can't wait, and she can. To survive,
the four must recognize their own flawed human nature,
and must learn to defend the notion of human decency
in the ordinary conduct of their affairs.
Selected
Stories: Award winning stories previousy released
in some of America's favorite literary journals, these
works of fiction will leave the reader wanting for
days gone by, a more innocent time in our history.
Ron
Johnson has won prizes for his fiction and creative
non-fiction. He is currently a professor of English
at Northern Michigan University, where he teaches
writing and literature courses. He has published short
fiction in the United States and New Zealand. He holds
an MFA in creative writing from the University of
California, Irvine, and a PhD in English from the
University of Utah.
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"With
his terse, economical prose, his working class characters,
and his ability to find extraordinary drama in ordinary
situations, Ron Johnson earns comparison with Raymond
Carver. Silver Thaw and Selected Stories is
a wonderful collection."—Larry Watson, bestselling
author of Montana 1948
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