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On the Winding Stair
A debut story collection that twists the clichéeacute;s of mainstream mystery writing, bringing new surprises and intelligence.
Book Details
- Publisher: BOA Editions
- Publish Date: Sep 1st, 2009
- Pages: 150
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.20in - 0.50in - 0.30lb
- EAN: 9781934414255
- Categories: • Literary• Short Stories (single author)• Ghost
About the Author
Joanna Howard holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Denver, and MFA in fiction writing from Bowling Green State University. She teaches fiction workshops at Brown University. Her stories appear in anthologies and journals including Conjunctions, The Chicago Review, Quarterly West, and American Letters and Commentary. She has edited for Denver Quarterly and other journals.
Praise for this book
From Publishers Weekly Howard (In the Colorless Round) upends some traditional literary conventions in these 14 tales of startling description and beauty. Her settings are bucolic, such as an abandoned farm house, a hilltop mansion and the ruins of a cider mill, each depicted in romantic language (in a lavender twilight). In the first story, Light Carried on Air Moves Less, a waiflike beauty stumbles upon an erotic book and apes the illustrations, all the while being watched by a curious specter. In Captive Girl for Cobbled Horsemen, the author plays on the 19th-century captive narrative, while Seascape tinkers with the maritime ghost story by featuring a widow who gradually comes to love the captain depicted in a painting. Many of the stories simply showcase lush, serene description, such as The Scent of Apples, in which a recluse tends to his apple orchard, spied on adoringly by his orphan ward. The last story, The Tartan Detective, features all the necessary accoutrements of detective fiction (even the listening mechanism concealed in a potted fern!). Howard's sensuous prose is to be savored for its own sake. (Sept.) Copyright (c) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved Joanna's chapbook of stories with accompanying illustrations by Rikki Ducornet "In the Colorless Roung" received reviews in Rain Taxi, Bookslut, H_ng M_n, and Hart Hammer.