Jennifer Sinor. The Extraordinary W...

Jennifer Sinor. The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray's Diary. Iowa City: U of Iowa P 2002 254 pp ISBN, 0-87745-833-2 $1995

When I agreed to review The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing, I look fored a book that was largely Annie Ray's diary, edited and introduced at extent by literary scholar Jennifer Sinor. Instead I was surprised and delighted through this compelling montage of memoir, scholarly argument, and, of course, the diary of Sinor's great-great-great-aunt Annie Ray, who, with her husband, an itinerant blacksmith, homesteaded in the Dakotas in