Maggie Boylan - Couverture rigide

Henson, Michael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0804012016 ISBN 13 : 9780804012010

Editeur : Swallow Press, 2018

Synopsis

Finalist, 2019 Weatherford Award (Fiction) - A Great Group Reads Selection for National Reading Group Month from The Women's National Book Association

Set in Appalachian Ohio amid an epidemic of prescription opiate abuse, Michael Henson's linked collection tells of a woman's search for her own peculiar kind of redemption, and brings the novel-in-stories form to new heights. Maggie Boylan is an addict, thief, liar, and hustler. But she is also a woman of deep compassion and resilience. The stories follow Maggie as she spirals through her addictive process, through the court system and treatment, and into a shaky new beginning.

In these masterful stories, we rarely occupy Maggie's perspective, but instead gain a multilayered portrait of a community as we see other people's lives bump up against hers--and we witness her inserting herself into their spheres, refusing to be rebuffed. The result is a prismatic view of a community fighting to stay upright against the headwinds of a drug epidemic: always on edge, always human.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Michael Henson is the author of four books of fiction and four collections of poetry. His prize-winning collection of linked stories, Maggie Boylan (Swallow Press), has been called "an important work of art, beautifully rendered." His stories, poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in Still: The Journal, Appalachian Heritage, and Threepenny Review.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Swallow Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804012016
• ISBN 13: 9780804012010
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible