In this novel, a small Kansas town sits in the shadow of a corrupt meatpacking plant called Pig City, the region's only major employer. The town is reliant on the plant to give them a living, but resentful of it for sending them home poor, tired, and maimed. Their sadness erupts in the town, causing their children to develop strange powers: boys with wings, girls who can burn with a touch, kids who die and come back as ghosts. As the students of the town wait to graduate and begin working at the plant, trying to find love and wrestling with their odd gifts, the plant owner begins working with a boy genius to replace the workers with machines, a move that would kill the town once and for all. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Spring Semester, 2015. / February 20, 2015. / Includes bibliographical references. / Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Professor Directing Dissertation; Robert Romanchuk, University Representative; Mark Winegardner, Committee Member; Diane Roberts, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_253454 |
| Contributors | Hicks, Micah Dean (authoraut), Stuckey-French, Elizabeth (professor directing dissertation), Romanchuk, Robert (university representative), Winegardner, Mark (committee member), Roberts, Diane, 1959- (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Arts and Sciences (degree granting college), Department of English (degree granting department) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource (304 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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