At-risk

Informationen zum Autor AMINA GAUTIER is the author of At-Risk, which won the 2011 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is the author of two more award-winning short story collections, Now We Will Be Happy and The Loss of All Lost Things. She was the 2018 recipient of the Pen/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Best African American Fiction and New Stories from the South and in numerous literary journals including AGNI , Boston Review , Glimmer Train , Oxford American , and Southern Review. Klappentext In Amina Gautier's Brooklyn! some kids make it and some kids don't! but not in simple ways or for stereotypical reasons. Gautier's stories explore the lives of young African Americans who might all be classified as "at-risk!” yet who encounter different opportunities and dangers in their particular neighbourhoods and schools and who see life through the lens of different family experiences.

Product details

• Authors: Amina Gautier
• Assisted by: Nancy Zafris (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 15.10.2012
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9780820344393
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4439-3
• Pages: 160
• Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Sh > 28; Flannery O'Connor Award for Sh > 28
• Subjects: FICTION / Short Stories (single author); Fiction - General