More of This World or Maybe Another

Zusatztext "This debut is elemental! precise! and charged with ragged! intimate grace. As the collection's heroine Delia says to her lover! I would say to all readers: 'Come see.'" Informationen zum Autor Barb Johnson has been a carpenter in New Orleans for more than twenty years. In 2008 she received her MFA from the University of New Orleans. While there, she won a grant from the Astraea Foundation, Glimmer Train 's Short Story Award for New Writers, and Washington Square 's short story competition. She is the fifth recipient of AROHO's $50,000 Gift of Freedom. This is her first collection. Klappentext The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile heroes of the American underclass redefine our notions of family, redemption, and love. Zusammenfassung More of This World or Maybe Another is a collection of award-winning short fiction about four outsiders whose unruly lives intersect on the back streets of New Orleans from writer Barb Johnson. Funny and haunting by turns! Johnson’s unforgettable characters are driven by something fragile and irresistible! a sputtering drive to love and be loved! in these “stunning stories . . . the kind that reveal! enlarge! and make living seem worth the trouble.” (Dorothy Allison)

Product details

• Authors: Barb Johnson
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.10.2009
• EAN: 9780061732270
• ISBN: 978-0-06-173227-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Romance / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, FICTION: Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION: Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Speeches, FICTION: Erotica / Collections & Anthologies