978-1-58838-208-5
1-58838-208-7
$27.95 hardcover
5 ˝ X 8˝
336 pages
NewSouth Books |
Publishers Weekly hailed the "wit and subtlety" in Gerald Duff's fiction as "simply
satisfying as a tall cold one on a hot Gulf Coast afternoon." The Arkansas Democrat-
Gazette said "Gerald Duff's dialogue is among the best being written, and his sense of the
absurd is Portis-like." This new collection of short stories features "Fire Ants, " which
won the Cohen Award from Ploughshares for the best work of fiction published in the
magazine in the year of its appearance. In addition to winning the Cohen Award, the title
story was cited in Best American Short Stories and republished in The Editors' Choice:
New American Stories.
about the author
Gerald Duff, a native of the Texas Gulf Coast, has taught literature and writing at
Vanderbilt University, Kenyon College, and Johns Hopkins University. His novels have
been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Prize, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the
International eBook Award, and the Texas Institute of Letters Award. He has published
two collections of poetry—A Ceremony of Light and Calling Collect—and six novels,
including Indian Giver, That's All Right, Mama: The Unauthorized Life of Elvis's Twin,
Memphis Ribs, and his most recent, from NewSouth Books, Coasters.
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