Patricia Ann McNair

• Sep-2011
• / Literary
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Winner of Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year
Winner of the 2012 Devil's Kitchen Prose Readers Award
Finalist of Society of Midland Authors Award for Adult Fiction
 
Linking the lives and tales of a place and its people through ...

• Apr-2014
• / General Fiction
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Hello, is this someone with good news or money? No? Goodbye!Er…Hello, is this someone with good news or money? No? Goodbye!Ha! Yeah, right. A Thousand Clowns. Jason Robards. Right. Ok, yeah. Hey. It’s me. Surprise. Long time. I know.So here’s t...

• Sep-2015
• / General Fiction
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Chicago goes by many nicknames -- the City on the Lake, the Windy City, the Third Coast, the City of Big Shoulders, the Second City. But for the people who call it home, perhaps the most fitting sobriquet is the City of Neighborhoods, hundreds of...

• Sep-2017
• / General Fiction
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Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. "These are the moments I want to tell, to write, the ones that leave me a little raw, that hold love and memory and pain and suffering and survival."--Patricia Ann McNair, from "We Are All Just Stupid People" Da...

• Dec-2020
• / General Fiction
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In Responsible Adults, farms fail, families break apart, and work is hard to come by. The characters in Patricia Ann McNair's fictional Midwestern towns are fueled by grief and hope, loss and desire. A stepfather attacks a neighbor boy for exposing a...

• May-2024
• / Literary
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Linking the lives and tales of a place and its people through tragedy and consequence, blind faith and redemption, The Temple of Air, Patricia Ann McNair’s award-winning collection of finely tuned short stories, spans three decades to present a...