Description
Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time
Product Details
| Publisher | Bottom Dog Press |
| Publish Date | April 01, 2022 |
| Pages | 176 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781947504332 |
| Dimensions | 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.4 inches | 0.5 pounds |
About the Author
Mountains of Southeast Ohio, and she returned there each summer so that the mountains and the people had a strong influence on her writing. "Probably because the hill country exists for me largely in their remembrances," she says, "it has turned, in my brain, into myth and symbol, the stuff of which my poems and stories are made. I believe the pull of different cultures resulted in a sort of double vision, a feeling of standing outside my own times, looking on from a distance.
I feel this tension at the heart of my fiction."
The Phototropic Woman, her first story collection, won the Iowa School of Letters Short Fiction Award in 1981 and was published by University of Iowa Press. A second volume of short fiction, Knucklebones, won the Willa Cather Award in 1994 and was published in 1995 by Helicon Nine Editions in Kansas City, MO. Two novels, Blood Feud (1998) and Stone Man Mountain (2002) were published by University of Tennessee Press.
Reviews
In 'Dorsey and the Amishman, ' young love is caught in the crosscurrents of cultures that intertwine yet stand distinct and separate. In 'The Lost Book, ' mature love faces physical and mental decline, as well as the demands of mortality itself. In 'Tuesday at the Airport, ' an aging woman searches for meaning in a busy airport.
Thomas' writing is a delight. Her characters are full, her touch deft, a single word capturing paragraphs. Her hand on the page is as sure as her characters' hands on the hoe. The earth of her stories is a rich soil, the lines of her telling straight and true, her seeds yielding a bounty."
Kurt Landefeld, author of Jack's Memoir
Annabel Thomas deftly weaves together three apparently disparate stories into a cohesive tale of humanity with living characters. A young woman's love and lust for a beautiful but
seemingly unreachable man, the ebbing sexual life between a geriatric couple whose love remains hopeful, and a lone woman wandering an airport on a fateful day for America, all beautifully coalesce with bits of literature, religion, humor, memory, hope, and passion. Christina Lovin, author of God of Sparrows.
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