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A Place Remote: Stories
"From farm to factory, alcoholism to war wounds, friendship to betrayal, the stories in A Place Remote take us intimately into the hearts of people from all walks of life in a rural Ohio town. In each of these ten stories, Gwen Goodkin forces her characters to face the dramatic events of life head-on-some events happen in a moment, while others are the fallout of years or decades of turning away"--
Book Details
- Publisher: West Virginia University Press
- Publish Date: Sep 1st, 2020
- Pages: 180
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.00in - 0.50in - 0.48lb
- EAN: 9781949199611
- Categories: • Short Stories (single author)• Small Town & Rural
About the Author
Gwen Goodkin's stories and essays have been published in literary magazines throughout the United States and beyond. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and is the recipient of the Folio Editor's Prize and the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction. Born and raised in Ohio, she now lives in Encinitas, California. Learn more at gwengoodkin.com.
Praise for this book
"Gwen Goodkin's debut short story collection follows in the tradition of other meteoric writers like Jayne Anne Phillips, Mary Gaitskill, Lauren Groff, and so many before them, heralding a new, sui generis voice that promises so much to come."
Rex Pickett, author of Sideways and The Archivist
Rex Pickett, author of Sideways and The Archivist
"Some of the stories in A Place Remote resemble the strong and deep feeling of Sherwood Anderson's collection Winesburg, Ohio that put the American heartland under a microscope in the early years of the last century. Other stories speak to the zany, contemporary world of the twenty-first century, in that same place. What makes Gwen Goodkin's stories so important is that with wit and compassion they touch on the desire to return to the strong loyalty and its values that this America tugs us back to."
Mark Jay Mirsky, editor of Fiction and professor of English, City College of New York
Mark Jay Mirsky, editor of Fiction and professor of English, City College of New York