Acceleration Hours
Stories
Published on 30. May 2020
200 pages
978-1-948908-63-4 (ISBN)
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From the author of the critically-acclaimed novel, I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them, Jesse Goolsby's Acceleration Hours is a haunting collection of narratives about families, life, and loss during America's twenty-first-century forever wars. Set across the mountain west of the United States, these fierce, original, and compelling stories illuminate the personal search for human connection and intimacy. From a stepfather's grief to an AWOL soldier and her journey of reconciliation to a meditation on children, violence, and hope, Acceleration Hours is an intense and necessary portrayal of the many voices living in a time of perpetual war.
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University of Nevada Press
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Jesse Goolsby is an award-winning author and associate professor of English and Fine Arts at the United States Air Force Academy. His short fiction and essays have appeared widely, including Epoch, Narrative Magazine, TriQuarterly, The Literary Review, Pleiades, Salon, and the Best American series. He is the recipient of the Richard Bausch Short Story Prize, the John Gardner Memorial Award in Fiction, and fellowships from the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He also serves as the Acquisition Editor for the literary journal War, Literature & the Arts.
Content
- Acknowledgments
- Anchor & Knife
- We Drag Our Feet near the Stingrays
- Feed
- Tendons
- Sometimes Kids Bleed for No Reason
- God's Zipper
- Begin with Serenity
- All Saints' Eve
- Waiting for Red Dawn
- Hindu Kush
- Waist Deep at Hapuna
- Acceleration Hours
- Why I Listen to My Children Breathe
- Sovereignty
- What My Dead Wife Should Know
- Benevolence
- Ishi Wilderness
- Not an Emergency
- Green Lungs, Purple Hearts, Orange Kidneys
- The Price of Everything
- About the Author
- Anchor & Knife
- We Drag Our Feet near the Stingrays
- Feed
- Tendons
- Sometimes Kids Bleed for No Reason
- God's Zipper
- Begin with Serenity
- All Saints' Eve
- Waiting for Red Dawn
- Hindu Kush
- Waist Deep at Hapuna
- Acceleration Hours
- Why I Listen to My Children Breathe
- Sovereignty
- What My Dead Wife Should Know
- Benevolence
- Ishi Wilderness
- Not an Emergency
- Green Lungs, Purple Hearts, Orange Kidneys
- The Price of Everything
- About the Author
