1979: short story collection

By Steve Anderson

In these thirteen stories, Steve Anderson captures what it meant to come of age in the late 1970s in working-class America. From a family's West Virginia oil wells to trekking through abandoned small-town factories, to a Nevada campground vacation, adolescents find love, strengthen friendships, and create adventures. Each story is tinged with the stark challenges and raw beauty of growing up in a rural, post-Vietnam world of shuttered mills and sprawling train tracks. Freedom comes from trying to purchase beer underage, stealing a friend's dad's rusted "work" car for a joyride, and creating the world's fastest sled for racing down a sheer quarry slope. There are stories of first love, captured against desert backdrops and in motel arcades. Most of all, this collection is about finding one's way to adulthood in a richly revealed time and place in America's Midwest.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1511417803
• ISBN13: 9781511417808
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"