Journey (If Where You're Going Isn't Home)

(Author)
Available
Product Details
Price
$17.95
Publisher
Max Zimmer
Publish Date
Pages
520
Dimensions
6.0 X 1.16 X 9.0 inches | 1.66 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780985448127
BISAC Categories:

Earn by promoting books

Earn money by sharing your favorite books through our Affiliate program.

Become an affiliate
About the Author
Winner of the Pushcart Prize for his story "Utah Died for Your Sins," hailed as a "raw new voice in American fiction" by Rolling Stone magazine, Max Zimmer was born in Switzerland, brought across the Atlantic at the age of four, and raised in Utah in the take-no-prisoners crucible of the Mormon faith. He earned a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Utah and was teaching fiction, working on a doctorate in writing, when he was invited east for a summer at Yaddo, the writer's retreat in Saratoga, New York. He never intended to stay in the East. He was here long enough to finish a panoramic novel about the West before returning to his family and friends and the students he loved in Utah. But from Yaddo he took a job teaching fiction in the Writing Arts Program at SUNY Oswego. It was there, in the summer of 1978, that he wrote a long love story that became the genesis for the trilogy "If Where You're Going Isn't Home." From Oswego, he gravitated toward the city, lived and tended bar in Manhattan while he kept working at his craft, met his wife, and eventually moved to the northwest corner of New Jersey, where he settled in to write "If Where You're Going Isn't Home" from the beginning. The East had become his home. Utah had become a place he was from, a place he wrote about. Max's published work includes poems, stories, reviews, magazine articles, short biographies, and liner notes for jazz albums. Success came fairly quickly once he started writing. Following its nomination by Ray Carver, his first published story "Utah Died for Your Sins" was awarded the Pushcart Prize, and singled out in Rolling Stone magazine as a raw new voice in American fiction. He has read at venues ranging from coffee shops to SUNY writers' conferences to the Pen New Writers Series. Jack Cady, Grace Paley, Lewis Turco, and John Gardner are among other established writers who have expressed high regard and admiration for his work. E. L. Doctorow called his work the best he'd seen in a coast-to-coast college tour following the release of "Ragtime." After meeting Max on a similar tour after "Falconer" was published, John Cheever enthusiastically promoted his work for the last five years of his life. You can learn more about Max and his work and share your own thoughts and stories with him at www.maxzimmer.com.