Fire Ants and Other Stories

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

679 kr

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Finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award for the Best Work of FictionPublishers Weekly hailed the ""wit and subtlety"" in Gerald Duff’s fiction as ""simply satisfying as a tall cold one on a hot Gulf Coast afternoon,"" and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette said ""Gerald Duff’s dialogue is among the best being written, and his sense of the absurd is Portis-like."" This new collection of short stories by the author of Coasters (2001) features the Ploughshares Cohen Prize-winning story ""Fire Ants."

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Utgivningsdatum2007-07-01
Mått140 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagUniversity of Georgia Press
ISBN9781588382085

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Gerald Duff is a native of the Texas Gulf Coast, and has taught literature and writing at Vanderbilt University, Kenyon College, and Johns Hopkins University. The title story of Fire Ants won the Cohen Prize from Ploughshares Magazine, was cited in Best American Short Stories, and republished in The Editors’ Choice: New American Stories. His novels have been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Prize, an Edgar Allan Poe Award, an International eBook Award, and a Texas Institute of Letters Award. He has published two collections of poetry, A Ceremony of Light and Calling Collect, and six novels, including Indian Giver, That’s All Right, Mama: The Unauthorized Life of Elvis’s Twin, Memphis Ribs, and Coasters and Fire Ants from NewSouth Books.