Better Times - Short Stories

Informationen zum Autor Sara Batkie was born in Seattle and raised in the wilds of Connecticut and Iowa. Her stories have been published in various journals, received mention in the 2011 Best American Short Stories anthology, and honored with a 2017 Pushcart Prize. Currently she lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as the Writing Programs Director for the Center for Fiction.   Klappentext Sara Batkie was born in Seattle and raised in the wilds of Connecticut and Iowa. Her stories have been published in various journals! received mention in the 2011 Best American Short Stories anthology! and honored with a 2017 Pushcart Prize. Currently she lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as the Writing Programs Director for the Center for Fiction. ¿ Zusammenfassung The stories in Better Times focus on what's happening in places people don't think to look. Women! sometimes displaced! often lonely! are at the heart of these stories. Divided into three sections covering the recent past! our current era! and the world to come! the stories gathered here interrogate the idea that so-called better times ever existed! particularly for women. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsThe Recent Past: When Her Father Was an Island Laika    Foreigners     No Man’s Land     The Modern Age: Cleavage North Country, Early Morning Lookaftering The World to Come: Those Who Left and Those Who Stayed

Product details

• Authors: Sara Batkie
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781496207876
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-0787-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in; Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction; Prairie Schooner Book Prize in; Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction; The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schoo; The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Fiction - General