Slow Release : Stories About Death from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

Laughman, Ethan (EDT); Allen, Ed (CON); Anderson, Robert (CON); Clyde, Mary (CON); Giles, Molly (CON)

ISBN 10: 0820355313 / ISBN 13: 9780820355313

Edité par University of Georgia Press, 2019

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Slow Release : Stories About Death from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
• Éditeur: University of Georgia Press
• Date de parution: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0820355313
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780820355313
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: As New

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Synopsis

Death, that ending of all endings, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series.

More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this anthology on death-and for planned anthologies on such topics as work, family, animals, children, and more.

Most of the expected ways by which we take our leave are covered here: accident, murder, suicide, illness, old age. Perhaps less expected is how, in these stories, a matter we'd rather not think about becomes the stuff of fiction so compelling that we can't stop thinking about it.

How can something so final and certain spread so much ambiguity in its wake? What did we think of the departed, and what did they think of us? How long will they be around--in our hearts and heads-even after they're gone? How will we forgive those who may have caused the death of a loved one? These fifteen stories give us many new ways of looking not only at death but at the lives that must go on in its aftermath.

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ETHAN LAUGHMAN is among the few who have read every Flannery O'Connor Award-winning volume. He collaborated closely with the series' authors in compiling these new anthologies. He currently teaches high school English.

ED ALLEN, an associate professor of English at the University of South Dakota, has also worked as a taxi driver, butcher, and salesman. Allen's novel Mustang Sally has been adapted into a film, Easy Six.

ROBERT ANDERSON is also the author of Little Fugue. He lives in New York City and teaches writing at the Nationwide Institute in Flushing, Queens.

MOLLY GILES is a lecturer in the creative writing department at San Francisco State University. Her stories have appeared in Playgirl, Redbook, North American Review, New England Review, and Ascent, among other publications. She lives in Woodacre, California, with her three daughters.

JACQUELIN GORMAN is the author of The Seeing Glass, a memoir. She grew up in a family of physicians in the shadow of Johns Hopkins Hospital and spent a great deal of time in Maryland's hospitals as a girl. She has practiced as a health-care lawyer in Los Angeles and as a hospital chaplain, and she is currently the program director at the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Her stories have appeared in Slake Magazine, Kenyon Review, ScreamOnline, The Journal, and Reader's Digest.