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University of Missouri -- Kansas City

Wishful Thinking

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

The novel interrogated what it means to live in a midwestern college town while not being in college. What it means to have stayed in one place long enough that everyone who left has decided to come back. What it means to be the one left behind. Among those who come back are a cousin who married into wealth and a former lover of hers who has come back with a mountain of wealth of his own. Peter is caught in the riptide of the prevalent hipster culture and new reality of social media. He is thrown into the deep end, confronted with the question: should he stay or should he go?

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts)
Level thesis:degree_level
Masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Creative Writing and Media Arts (UMKC)
Grantor dc:publisher
University of Missouri -- Kansas City
Year dc:date.issued
2018

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Kaleugher, Jon Fitzgerald
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • Hodgen, Christie, 1974-

Rights

Language dc:language.iso
en_US

Identifiers

dc:identifier.*
Handle dc:identifier.uri
https://hdl.handle.net/10355/68863
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:mospace.umsystem.edu:10355/68863

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Kaleugher, Jon Fitzgerald. Wishful Thinking. Masters thesis, University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10355/68863