Return Fire - Couverture rigide

Blake, Glenn

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 080189431X ISBN 13 : 9780801894312

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010

Synopsis

"I was born in a land of bayous, raised between rivers," writes Glenn Blake in his latest collection of short stories. "There is a place in Southeast Texas where two rivers meet and become one. There is a long bridge over these waters, and as you drive across, you can look to the south and see where the Old River and the Lost River become the Old and the Lost. You can look out as far as you can see and watch this wide water become the bay."

The stories in Return Fire are set in the swamps, bayous, and sloughs of Southeast Texas, a region that is subsiding--sinking inches every year beneath the encroaching tides. The characters who inhabit Blake's Southern landscape struggle to salvage what they can of their hopes and dreams. They are the walking wounded--cautious, crippled, capable of any act. Magnolias, water, mescal, stars, and fire return again and again in these seven sparse--yet tightly written--vignettes.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Glenn Blake has taught at Rice University, the University of Houston, and Johns Hopkins University. A senior editor at Boulevard magazine, he is the author of Drowned Moon and Return Fire. His short stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, Boulevard, Southwest Review, The Hopkins Review, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080189431X
• ISBN 13: 9780801894312
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 112
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