Bear Down, Bear North - Alaska Stories

Informationen zum Autor MELINDA MOUSTAKIS was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, and raised California. She received her MA from UC Davis and her PhD in English and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. In addition to winning the Flannery O'Connor Award, her book Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories won the Maurice Prize, was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Her stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review , Kenyon Review , New England Review , Conjunctions , Cimarron Review , American Short Fiction , and elsewhere. She was named a 2011 "5 Under 35" writer by the National Book Foundation. Klappentext In her debut collection, Melinda Moustakis brings to life a rough-and-tumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories. Born in Alaska herself to a family with a homesteading legacy, Moustakis examines the near-mythological accounts of the Alaskan wilderness that are her inheritance and probes the question of what it means to live up to larger-than-life expectations for toughness and survival.

Product details

• Authors: Melinda Moustakis
• Assisted by: Nancy Zafris (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2012
• EAN: 9780820344904
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4490-4
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Sh; Flannery O'Connor Award for Sh
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature