Touch Wood

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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Pulitzer Prize-nominee Joe Ashby Porter has created a new collection of innovative short stories which range across the US and Europe and acknowledge the sway of chance and contingency in our lives. |Porter's stories fuse fact and unlikelyhood, reality and the uncanny. They are irresistibly readable| - Richard Wilbur |One of the most consistently rewarding writers in the US and among the most intelligently exciting| - Stephen Dixon |It's his humanity that astonishes me| - E. White

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Utgivningsdatum:2000-04-20
Mått:1 x 1 x 14 mm
Vikt:233 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:Turtle Point Press
ISBN:9781885586643

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Winner of the Academy Award (2004) from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Porter is the author of three short story collections: The Kentucky Stories, Lithuania, and Touch Wood (Turtle Point, 2002); two novels: Eelgrass and Resident Aliens; and two nonfiction books on William Shakespeare. He has won Pushcart Prizes, NEA/PEN Syndicated Fiction awards, and fellowships from the NEA.

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"An American original" - John Hawkes; "Joe Ashby Porter's stories fuse fact and unlikelihood, reality and the uncanny. They are irresistibly readable." - Richard Wilbur; "one of the most consistently rewarding writers in the United States and among the most intelligently exciting." - Stephen Dixon