Transparencies Author:Robert Edwards Taken in its entirety, Transparencies by Robert Edwards forms a memoir of small town Minnesota, its backroads, its beauty, its loneliness, and its pain. Many voices are present here, producing a rich and polyphonic texture, that is by turns irreverent, political, humorous, and searching. This is an important addition to the Midwestern can... more »non. A hard book, perhaps, but one that many readers will be thankful to have encountered« less