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Twenty Stories

Jack Driscoll

Winner of Pushcart's Editors Book Award, Twenty Stories is cause for a grand celebration. Few short story writers have received the acclaim offered to Jack Driscoll over the decades. Here he has selected twenty of his best fictions including the classics "Prowlers" and "That Story" both winners of The Pushcart Prize.

The qualities that make his work indelible -- his deeply intimate relationship with nature and people, his natural lyricism, the authentic way his credible narratives earn their mystery, all are here in this beautiful collection, the culmination of a master writer's lifetime.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Pushcart Press
  • Publish Date: Dec 6th, 2022
  • Pages: 280
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.70in - 6.20in - 0.70in - 0.90lb
  • EAN: 9798985469714
  • Categories: Short Stories (single author)Literary

About the Author

Driscoll, Jack: -

Jack Driscoll is the author of several volumes of short stories and poetry, including Waiting Only to Be Heard, winner of the PEN/Nelson Algren Short Fiction Award. His novel Lucky Man, Lucky Woman won the 1998 Editors Book Award. He is also a poet. He lives in northern Michigan with his wife and teaches at the Interlochen Center for the Arts.


More books by Jack Driscoll

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Book Cover for: Lucky Man, Lucky Woman, Jack Driscoll

Praise for this book

These stories are technically dazzling and deeply affecting
-- "Booklist"
Driscoll's poetic language gives his characters a stature that makes their struggle meaningful, tragic and universal.-- "NYT Book Review"
Searing and powerful-- "Publishers Weekly"
These stories have a haunting authenticity.-- "Chicago Tribune"
Immensely rewarding and compelling.-- "Michigan Public Radio"
Yes ! That's how it's done, that's how you tell a story, that's how you do it so we'll never forget these people and their voices and this place.--Bob Shacochis