
The Name of the Nearest River
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Like a room soaked in the scent of whiskey, perfume, and sweat, the atmosphere of these stories is at once intoxicating, vulnerable, and full of brawn, revealing the hidden dangers in the coyote-infested fields, rusty riverbeds, and abandoned logging trails of Kentucky.
In one story, a man spends seven days in a jon boat with his fiddle and a Polaroid camera, determined to enact vengeance on the water-logged body of a used car salesman; in another, a demolition derby enthusiast watches his two wild, burning love interests duke it out, only to determine he would rather be left alone entirely. Together, these stories present a resonant debut collection from an unexpected new voice in Southern fiction, a recipient of the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing, the Barry Hannah Prize for Fiction, and the Eric Hoffer Award in General Fiction.
"This debut collection pulls readers into rural Kentucky and hammers them with the despair and frustration that drive his fierce, battered denizens of the Bluegrass State." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"[Taylor] writes with wit, zest and skill . . . In the long queue of very good contemporary Southern writers, here's a guy who can cut to the front." -The Minneapolis Star-Tribune
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- Intro
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- The Name of the Nearest River
- Things Both Right and Needed
- The Coal Thief
- Equator Joe's Famous Nuclear Meltdown Chili
- This Device Must Start on Zero
- At Late or Early Hour
- The Evening Part of Daylight
- We Were Men and the Fire Made Us
- A Lakeside Penitence
- A Courier Among Green Trees
- Winter in the Blood
- About the Author
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