Originally Posted by
Kevets
I am going nuts trying to find this short story ...
A boy goes to a river to get the special kind of clay or mud that he needs from there. He is making some bit of greek architecture for a school project (and that bit of architecture is the name of the short story). He has great difficulty, maybe he's attacked, but he gets back home and makes his project. His father comes home and destroys it.
It's a brutal story of paternal anger and abuse.
I was so sure this was a Wallace Stegner story, but I can't find any of his anthologies that has anything like it. Google has failed me. It's one of those that got under my skin 20 years ago, and I'd love to find it again.
Thanks!