(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820374383)
Set in the crumbling Spanish missions of nineteenth-century Baja California, this mythic novel in linked stories follows two grief-stricken people as haunted as the desolate chapels around them: a priest who caused the drowning of a native boy by com...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Sep-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820367279)
These eight brutally beautiful stories are struck full of fragmented dreams, with highly developed thieves, misadventurers, and displaced characters all heaving through a human struggle to anchor themselves in a new home or sometimes a new reality...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Sep-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820365268)
This collection of linked stories follows four generations of the Songs, a Korean American family, beginning in 1924 just prior to the Immigration Act and extending to near the end of the century. Linked stories, or stories that form a story cycle...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820363066)
In 1962 Philip Arrington, a psychologist with a PhD from Yeshiva, arrives in the small, mostly blue-collar town of Monroe, New York, to rent a house for himself and his new wife. They’re Black, something the man about to show him the house doesn’t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820360744)
In this scary, funny, and slyly political short story collection, Kate McIntyre conjures a fever dream of contemporary Kansas. Boundaries between fantasy and reality blur, and grotesque acts birth strange progeny. A mother must choose between her ch...Loe edasi...
Ethan Laughman, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, Catherine Brady, Philip F. Deaver, Greg Downs, Amina Gautier, Jacquelin Gorman, Lisa Graley, Tom Kealey, Peter LaSalle...
Sari: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820358697)
These stories are enveloped by change and the changes that shift the trajectories of our lives: change that shatters us, change that opens the world, and change from which we can never come back. These fourteen stories tell us about extensive and ine...Loe edasi...
Ethan Laughman, Randy F. Nelson, Tony Ardizzone, Rita Ciresi, Mary Clyde, Tom Kealey, Carol Lee Lorenzo, T. M. McNally, Alyce Miller, Debra Monroe...
Sari: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820358710)
Growing up can mean growing pains and the joys of new independence. With maturity comes the shift from infinitepossibilities to imminent realities. These thirteen stories describe the slow and subtle experience of growing up, a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Sep-2020, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820358079)
If We Were Electrics twelve stories celebrate New Orleans in all of its beautiful peculiarities-macabre and magical, muddy and exquisite, sensual and spiritual. This debut collection finds its characters in moments of desire and despair, often stuc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Sep-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820355696)
The women in the linked short story collection Once Removed carry the burdens imposed in the name of intimacy—the secrets kept, the lies told, the disputes initiated—as well as the joy that can still manage to triumph. A singer...Loe edasi...
Ethan Laughman, Becky Mandelbaum, Ed Allen, Wendy Brenner, David Crouse, Philip F. Deaver, Toni Graham, Mary Hood, Karin Lin-Greenberg, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum...
Sari: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Sep-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820356617)
These stories offer layered, perceptive takes on what home means to us. The people we meet in these stories are often traveling to and from home—thinking about where they have come from, where they are headed, and how that journey will impact their f...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820354729)
This collection bristles and hums with the rugged resilience one encounters in southern and Appalachian fiction where ghosts of loved ones and livestock alike haunt an underworld of lonely trails. Set in West Virginia, the stories take up residenc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820354743)
You’ll see how beautiful it is in the morning—jungle all around us, says one of the characters in Anne Raeff’s story collection, referring to the way that the jungle that threatens can also provide solace. The jungle...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820353722)
The stories in Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum’s new collection are about finding resilience in the face of adversity. Following losses big and small, environmental and familial, universal and personal, the best of us try to recover and rebuild. Lunstrum a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820353760)
The people in these eight interlaced stories are “bound together by the worst sort of grief,” the kind that can devour you after someone close takes his or her own life. Wednesday evenings in Hope Springs, Oklahoma, offer the usual middleAmerican...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820353746)
The stories in Better Than War encompass narratives from a diverse set of Iranian immigrants, many searching for a balance between memories of their homeland and their new American culture. The everyday life of each character subtly reflect...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Feb-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820352978)
In Karin Lin-Greenberg’s Faulty Predictions, young characters try to find their way in the world and older characters confront regrets. In “Editorial Decisions,” members of the editorial board of a high school literary magazine are witnesse...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Feb-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820352985)
In the eleven kaleidoscopic stories that make up Bright Shards of Someplace Else, Monica McFawn traces the combustive, hilarious, and profound effects that occur when people misread the minds of others. The characters—an array of arti...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Sep-2017, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820351285)
The eleven stories in Bad Kansas reveal the complicated underbelly of the country’s most flown-over state and the quirky characters who call it home. In this darkly humorous collection, Kansas becomes a state of mind as Mandelbaum’...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820352480)
In the cadence of a Texas drawl or the whisper of a midday kiss, these stories by Gail Galloway Adams capture untidy lives in which the pain of living is confounded with a grin. From the yoga instructor with her Earthshoes and mantras to the Texas au...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820352473)
In The Piano Tuner, Peter Meinke writes of the foreignness that awaits us when we go abroad and when we answer our own front door to admit a stranger, that confronts us in unfamiliar cities and villages and in the equally disquieting surroundings of...Loe edasi...
