Southern Stories

Clark Blaise

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Like the American South, Canada has been a poor, rural land suspicious of outsiders and technological progress for most of its history. It's no accident that at the end of the American Civil War, confederate leaders such as Jefferson Davies ended up in Canada. This work presents a portrayal of a dirt-poor South haunted by history.

Book Details

Publisher: Porcupine's Quill
Publish Date: Nov 15th, 2000
Pages: 176
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.88in - 5.52in - 0.61in - 0.73lb
EAN: 9780889842199
Categories: • Short Stories (single author)

About the Author

Blaise, Clark: -

Clark Blaise has taught in Montreal, Toronto, Saskatchewan and British Columbia, as well as at Skidmore College, Columbia University, Iowa, NYU, Sarah Lawrence and Emory. For several years he directed the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Among the most widely travelled of authors, he has taught or lectured in Japan, India, Singapore, Australia, Finland, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Holland, Germany, Haiti and Mexico. He lived for years in San Francisco, teaching at the

Praise for this book

`... fascinating studies of the Global Village in the late 20th century.'

- The Toronto Star

`[a fresh, idiosyncratic approach to what the short story can and should do.'

- Books in Canada

`A born storyteller ... a writer to savour.'

- The New York Times

`The pieces collected ... display the sure hand of a skilled writer. And though Blaise is unflinching is his portrayal of the poverty and backwardness of the post-war American South, a muted sense of wonder leads the reader over some very rough terrain.'

- James Grainger - Quill & Quire