New Stories from the South 2001
The Year's Best
Not just the year's best stories from Southern writers, or the year's best stories about the South arguably the best American short stories published in the U.S. (Virginia Quarterly Review) The South is both as it always was, and a profoundly different place than it used to be. But it still seems to be true, as Lee Smith says, that narrative is in the air. This year's collection ranges from decaying farms to department stores, from small towns to thriving cities, tracking the likes of a violent paperhanger, a boy who kidnaps his school bus driver, an ambitious fiddler, and a failed adman. Once again, New Stories from the South is full to the…
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Weitere Autoren: Smith, Lee (Vorwort v.)
- ISBN: 978-1-56512-311-3
- EAN: 9781565123113
- Produktnummer: 31184492
- Verlag: Workman
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.7 cm
- Abbildungen: Trade Paperback
Über den Autor
Shannon Ravenel has edited New Stories from the South since 1986. Formerly editorial director of Algonquin Books, she now directs her Algonquin imprint, Shannon Ravenel Books. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.Born in the small coal-mining town of Grundy, Virginia, Lee Smith began writing stories at the age of nine and selling them for a nickel apiece. Since then, she has written seventeen works of fiction, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, and, most recently, Guests on Earth. She has received many awards, including the North Carolina Award for Literature and an Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; her novel The Last Girls was a New York Times bestseller as well as winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, with her husband, the writer Hal Crowther. Visit her at www.leesmith.com.
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