Selected Stories
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-8071-3201-2 (ISBN)
Description
This magnificent summation of the short stories of Shirley Ann Grau, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Keepers of the House, gathers together eighteen gems ranking with the finest of Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. Grau possesses a range representing a master course in the craft of this most demanding art form. Her reader's banquet offers character sketches of Chekovian poignance and insight, a hilarious love story, excursions into the gothic and hauntingly apocalyptic, the elegiac and experimental, and stories that feel like compressed novels in their lapidary polish, depth, and emotional weight. Grau belongs in the company of the great southern short story writers, and the author's own choices of her best work remind readers of the unmatched capacity of the brief fictional form to depict character epiphany and such timeless themes as redemption and rebirth, the struggle between power and love, and the persistence of the past.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baton Rouge
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
413 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8071-3201-2 (9780807132012)
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Persons
Shirley Ann Grau grew up in Louisiana and Alabama and now divides her time between Metairie -- a suburb of New Orleans -- and Martha's Vineyard. She is the author of three previous collections of stories and five novels, including The House on Coliseum Street, The Hard Blue Sky, and Roadwalkers.