The Invention of Flight

Susan Neville combines a gift for language with a subtle eye and a fine instinct for character. Her characters - and her settings - are, most of them, midwestern. All of the stories in this unusual first collection stick in the reader's mind long after they have been read.

About the author

SUSAN NEVILLE is the author of six works of creative nonfiction: Fabrication: Essays on Making Things and Making Meaning; Twilight in Arcadia; Iconography: A Writer's Meditation; Butler's Big Dance; Sailing the Inland Sea, and Light. Her short story collection, The Invention of Flight, received the 1983 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her collection of short fiction In the House of Blue Lights won the Richard Sullivan Prize and was listed as a Notable Book by the Chicago Tribune. Her stories have appeared in many anthologies including the Pushcart Prize anthology. Neville teaches writing at Butler University and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Neville
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2010
• EAN: 9780820337050
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3705-0
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Sh; Flannery O'Connor Award for Sh
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Fiction - General