Winter Money - Couverture souple

Plattner, Andy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0820344591 ISBN 13 : 9780820344591

Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 2013

Synopsis

The ten stories in Winter Money are set in rural Kentucky and West Virginia, in dim horse racing and river towns. The men in Andy Plattner’s stories are tough and uncertain, the women independent and disappointed, but they are strong-willed and high-spirited, always believing there’s a better life, just over the horizon, after the next race. The title story depicts the life of a jockey agent who has seen some bad breaks but knows in his heart he can turn things around if he can just get some “winter money” to make a fresh start in Florida. In “Chandelier,” a bankrupt horse breeder risks everything again in an attempt to save a friend’s farm. “Eldorado” is the story of a young horse groom convinced an old car will be good luck for him, even though it could break down over the next hill. Life at a race track is as desperately unpredictable as the next race, but the people bound to this life live only when they are taking chances. The lies they tell themselves and others run with reality to create new truths. The men and women of Winter Money live in motel rooms that rent by the week, where strangers can change the course of lives. Love and compassion come from unexpected sources, and, as a result, dreams and desired are nurtured and sometimes, against the odds, sustained.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

ANDY PLATTNER is the author of Winter Money, which received the 1996 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. He has published three other books of literary fiction: A Marriage of Convenience, Offerings from a Rust Belt Jockey, and Dixie Luck: Stories and the novella Terminal. His fiction has earned two gold medals from the Faulkner Society, the Dzanc Mid-Career Novel Prize, a Henfield Prize, the Ferrol Sams Fiction Award, the Castleton-Lyons Book Award and a silver medal in literary fiction from the Independent Book Publishers' Awards.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Georgia Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820344591
• ISBN 13: 9780820344591
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 170
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