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Informationen zum Autor John Mort's first novel, Soldier in Paradise (1999), was widely reviewed and won the W. Y. Boyd Award for best military fiction. He has published ten other books, including two readers advisory works, four novels, and four collections of stories. His short stories have appeared in a wide variety of magazines, including The New Yorker, Missouri Review, the Chicago Tribune, the Arkansas Review, and in Sixfold. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts literary grant, the Hackney Award, and a Western Writers of America Spur for the short story, "The Hog Whisperer." In 2017 he was awarded the Sullivan Prize for his short story collection, Down Along the Piney, which was published in 2018 by the University of Notre Dame Press. Mort spent much of his childhood in the southern Missouri counties of Wright and Texas, where The Ballad of Johnny Bell is set. Mort served with the First Cavalry from 1968 through 1970 as a rifleman and RTO. He attended the University of Iowa, from which he earned a BA in English (1972), an MFA in writing (1974), and an MLS (1976). He worked as a librarian, editor, and teacher. He lives in Coweta, Oklahoma. Klappentext Down Along the Piney is John Mort's fourth short-story collection and winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction. With settings in Florida! California! Mexico! Chicago! the Texas Panhandle! and! of course! the Ozarks themselves! these thirteen stories portray the unsung! amusing! brutal! forever hopeful lives of ordinary people. Mort chronicles the struggles of "flyover" people who live not just in the Midwest! but anywhere you can find a farm! small town! or river winding through forested hills. Mort! whose earlier stories have appeared in the New Yorker! GQ! and The Chicago Tribune! is the author of the award-winning Vietnam War novel Soldier in Paradise! as well as Goat Boy of the Ozarks and The Illegal. These ironic! unflaggingly honest stories will remind the reader of Jim Harrison! Sherwood Anderson! and Shirley Jackson. Zusammenfassung Down Along the Piney is a touching collection of short stories that provides ironic and poignantly honest perspectives of rural American communities across the country. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Pitchblende 2. The Hog Whisperer 3. Mission to Mars 4. Red Rock Valley 5. Home Place 6. Behind Enemy Lines 7. Blackberries 8. The Painter 9. The Truth 10. Take the Man Out and Shoot Him 11. The Book Club 12. Mariposa 13. The Hidden Kingdom ...
