Fairlee E. Winfield
WorksBUFFALOed
Norwegian immigrant Ovidia Odegard arrives in Boston, driven out of her country by her family’s financial straits, and soon discovers that she will not be the maid in some ornate east coast mansion, but is expected to work for a widowed farmer in Minnesota. Enthralled by the images of the Wild West, the willful girl manages to thwart that plan and end up in the Montana home of the legendary “Cowboy Artist” Charlie Russell, considered even today as one of the most prolific and talented western artists of the 20th century. It is in the Russell home that young Ovidia inadvertently stumbles onto of one of the great art frauds of modern American history. Narrated in the colorful language of a feisty young woman discovering the American west, Fairlee Winfield’s BUFFALOed pulls the reader so thoroughly into time and place that one easily forgets that this is fiction. Who actually painted the Lewis and Clark mural, still considered a gem in the crown of American art? Or is this myth simply more of the intriguing fiction created by the lively mind of a gifted author? Fact or fiction, the narration carries the reader into the tense, difficult, and sometimes hilarious world of a tough woman, a survivor discovering her own place in a landscape both foreign and seductive. Commuter Marriage; Living Together, Apart
With candor and humor, Commuter Marriage relates the experience of 150 commuting couples, ranging in age from 25 to 67, in blue-collar as well as white-collar jobs, who have two-city marriages. The book looks at the important aspects of the lifestyle: psychic stresses and psychic pleasures, sex and the married single, social taboos, corporate commitments, and finance. Now available as an ebook from Columbia University Press. The Work and Family Sourcebook
Nine key work and family issues are treated.
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