{"id":1467,"date":"1995-02-01T19:58:02","date_gmt":"1995-02-02T00:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/import-placeholder-for-28\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T12:50:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T17:50:05","slug":"civilized-tribes","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/civilized-tribes\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilized Tribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a career that spans more than twenty-five years, Jerry Bumpus has published nearly 120 stories in such notable magazines as <i>Esquire, The Paris Review,<\/i> and <i>The Best American Short Stories<\/i>. Now the most intense and original of his short fictions have been brought together in <i>The Civilized Tribes: New and Selected Stories.<\/i> Grounded in a world that is almost familiar, inhabited by people who are not quite ordinary, these eleven tales will take readers far south of the psychological comfort zone, into a borderland of dark sensibility, brilliant humor, and unsettling sex. The stories told in this book reflect what Gertrude Stein had in mind when she revised Longfellow&#8217;s famous lines: &#8220;Life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange.&#8221; Jerry Bumpus, saluted in the 1960s as &#8220;the king of underground writers,&#8221; has emerged in the 1990s to the broader acclaim that his innovative work has long deserved. <i>The Civilized Tribes: New and Selected Stories<\/i> reveals Bumpus as the sole occupant of his own category in American Fiction.<\/p>\n<p>This book was published with a grant from the Ohio Arts Council.<\/p>\n<h3>About the author<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Jerry Bumpus<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<p>Jerry Bumpus, born in 1937 in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, is a professor of English at San Diego State University. He holds a BA in English from the University of Missouri, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Writers&#8217; Workshop of the University of Iowa. He has published two novels,\u00a0<i>Anaconda<\/i>\u00a0and<i>\u00a0The Happy Convent<\/i>, and four collections of short stories:\u00a0<i>Things in Place, Special Offer, Heroes and Villians,<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Dawn of the Flying Pigs.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h4>New and Selected Stories<\/h4>\n<h3>by Jerry Bumpus<\/h3>\n<p>Pages: 277; Size: 6&#8243; x 9&#8243;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2363,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1],"product_tag":[97795,86653],"class_list":{"0":"post-1467","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-uncategorized","7":"product_tag-short-fiction","8":"product_tag-university-of-akron-press","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}