Thieves I've Known - Stories

In these wondrously strange and revealing stories, Tom Kealey chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the young and marginalized as they discover many ways of growing up. Thieves I've Known is a collection of powerful, moving stories about the lives of a redemptive and peculiar cast of young characters who become easy to know and difficult to forget.

About the author

TOM KEALEY is the author of The Creative Writing MFA Handbook. His stories have appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading, Glimmer Train, Story Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, and the San Francisco Chronicle. His nonfiction has appeared in Poets and Writers and The Writer. He received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award. Tom has taught creative writing at Stanford University since 2003.

Summary

Ranging in place from Puget Sound, Washington, to Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, Thieves I’ve Known is a collection of powerful, moving stories about the lives of a redemptive and peculiar cast of young characters—abandoned yet courageous teenagers living on the edges of society—who become easy to know and difficult to forget.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Kealey
• Assisted by: Nancy Zafris (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780820351445
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-5144-5
• No. of pages: 194
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Sh; Flannery O'Connor Award for Sh; Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Series
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature