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Stories
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Artikel-Nr:
9781611175332
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.05.2015
Seiten:
128
Autor:
Pam Durban
Gewicht:
318 g
Format:
221x160x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Pam Durban is the author of the novels The Laughing Place (winner of the Townsend Prize), So Far Back (winner of the Lillian Smith Award), and The Tree of Forgetfulness and the short story collection All Set About with Fever Trees. Her short fiction has been published in Georgia Review, Tri-Quarterly, Southern Review, Shenandoah, Crazyhorse, Epoch, New Virginia Review, Ohio Review, and elsewhere. Durban has received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a Whiting Writer's Award as well as a James Michener Creative Writing Fellowship from the University of Iowa. With former Georgia poet laureate David Bottoms, she is founding coeditor of Five Points literary magazine. A native of Aiken, South Carolina, she is the Doris Betts Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
This new collection of stories explores the myriad ways people lose, find, and hold on to one another. When all else fails Pam Durban's characters the powerful act of storytelling itself keeps their broken lives together and fosters hope. Each story in this collection introduces people who yearn for better lives and find themselves entangled in the hopes and dreams that heal and bind us.