Backbone: Short stories

by Carol Bly

A collection of short stories dealing with everyday life

125 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

Reviews

[Alison · Rating 4 out of 5]

Her moral and political outrage, intelligence, humor, and compassion made her voice stand out anywhere. She was anti-apathy, anti-complacency, anti-smalltalk, anti-ignorance, anti-war. She was pro-dissent, pro-judgment, pro-arts, pro-feeling, pro-action, pro-farmer, pro-sustainability, pro-local-theater-productions, pro-conversation….. She wanted to talk with children and teenagers and old people about contemporary art and music and politics and farming. And she proposed solutions to the problems she identified, starting at the very grassroots level, with 4-H meetings, church groups, and the town parade committee, and urging people to seek accountability from Washington. She demanded respect for people living in Minnesota farms and small towns, and she demanded that these people learn to respect themselves, by which she almost always meant to educate themselves. That goes, of course, for everybody.
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[Peggy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love Carol Bly's dry wit. She has a way of taking very covert pot-shots at her ex-husband, Robert Bly, though never directly. She is also humorously poking a little fun at men, women, and human interactions in general. I liked it enough to finish it all. Carol Bly is a MN Writer, so I am interested in her point-of-view.