The Proper Words for Sin - Couverture souple

Fincke, Gary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1935978888 ISBN 13 : 9781935978886

Editeur : West Virginia University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Within these eleven short stories, Flannery O'Connor Award winner and poet Gary Fincke brings into focus the small struggles of ordinary people. The characters within this collection, from boys and girls to fathers, mothers, and the aging, live in cities, in towns, and in rural areas.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gary Fincke is the Writers Institute Director and Charles Degenstein Professor of English and Creative Writing at Susquehanna University. Winner of the 2003 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the 2003 Ohio State University/The Journal Poetry Prize, and the 2010 Stephen F. Austin Poetry Prize for recent collections, he has published twenty-four books of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, most recently The History of Permanence, The Canals of Mars: A Memoir, The Fire Landscape, Sorry I Worried You, and Amp'd: A Father's Backstage Pass, a nonfiction account of his son's life as a rock guitarist in the band Breaking Benjamin. His work has appeared in such periodicals as Harper's, Newsday, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, American Scholar, and Doubletake, and has been read by Garrison Keillor on NPR. He has twice been awarded Pushcart Prizes for his work, including "The Canals of Mars," which was reprinted in The Pushcart Essays, an anthology of the best nonfiction published during the first twenty-five years of the Pushcart Prize volumes. He has been recognized by Best American Stories and the O. Henry Prize series, and cited eleven times in the past thirteen years for a "Notable Essay" in Best American Essays. Gary Fincke grew up near Pittsburgh and currently lives in central Pennsylvania.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: West Virginia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1935978888
• ISBN 13: 9781935978886
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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