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Informationen zum Autor Bill Roorbach is the author of a number of books of fiction and nonfiction! including the novels Life among the Giants and The Smallest Color ! the romantic memoir Summers with Juliet ! the essay collection Into Woods ! and Maine Prize nonfiction winner Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey . The tenth anniversary edition of his craft book! Writing Life Stories ! is used in writing programmes around the world. His short fiction has been published in Harper's ! Atlantic Monthly ! the New York Times ! Playboy ! and dozens of other magazines! journals! and websites. He lives in western Maine. Klappentext Through quirky plots! one-of-kind characters! and more than a few twists! the stories in Big Bend examine gentle-hearted men and their relationships. From made-in-heaven meetings to troublesome liaisons! Roorbach's characters experience romance in unexpected! sometimes disastrous ways. Zusammenfassung Through quirky plots! one-of-kind characters! and more than a few twists! the stories in Big Bend examine gentle-hearted men and their relationships. From made-in-heaven meetings to troublesome liaisons! Roorbach's characters experience romance in unexpected! sometimes disastrous ways.
About the author
BILL ROORBACH's newest book,
The Girl of the Lake, is a collection of stories that was longlisted for the 2017 Story Prize and finalist for the Maine Literary Award in Fiction, 2017. Also from Roorbach are the novels
The Remedy for Love, a finalist for the 2015
Kirkus Prize, and the best-selling
Life among Giants, which won a Maine Literary Award in 2012. Nonfiction books include
Temple Stream,
Summers with Juliet, and
Into Woods. Roorbach was a 2018 Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow in Umbria. He lives in western Maine.
