1-58838-187-0
978-1-58838-187-3
$24.95 hardcover
5 1/2 x 81/2
160 pages
NewSouth Books
He writes here from many perspectives-- male, female, first-person, third-person grieving widow, newly divorced dad, jailed redneck, river man laid up with heart trouble, conjure woman--and in every story the voice is true.
The marvel of Short's prose is that the writing is so good it
disappears, leaving the reader surrounded only by the story, which
resonates long after the last word is absorbed. Also remarkable is
how Short can go from comedy to tragedy within a single paragraph,
sometimes within a single sentence, and then back again.
His time lines range from the Civil War to the near future, and the
locales vary from a Kentucky mining town to the Gulf Coast of Mexico to
the constellation Orion-- all in all, a rare feast for the imagination.
Featuring stories that have appeared before only in magazines, this
collection charts more than two decades of the growth and exploration of
an author who won the first Redbook Fiction Prize at the age of
twenty-seven, and whose acclaimed novel The Shining Shining Path was
called by reviewers "Southern magical realism" and praised by
Publishers Weekly as "boldly imaginative; a provocative spiritual
odyssey."
about the author
Carroll Dale Short lives and writes in Birmingham, Alabama. his
other books include The Shining Shining Path; The People's
Lawyer; A Writer's Toolkit; and several collections of short
stories, poems, and essays.