Research Catalog

Title

American Fiction. Volume 14 : the best unpublished stories by emerging writers / Bruce Pratt, editor ; Elizabeth Strout, finalist judge.

Publication

• Moorhead, MN : New Rivers Press, MSUM, [2015]
• [Berkeley, CA] : Small Press Distribution
• ©2015

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Pratt, Bruce
• Strout, Elizabeth

Description

xi, 257 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Twenty-one new authors evoke the painful and beautiful realities of life. Whether the struggles of a recent immigrant to support his family, a young daughter dealing with her mother's mental health issues, or the slow decay of a once- sharp mind, this volume showcases the lives of these diverse American writers and characters. -- Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Small Press Distribution

Subject

• 2000 - 2099
• Short stories, American
• American fiction > 21st century
• American fiction

Genre/Form

• short stories.
• Short stories
• Nouvelles.

Note

• Short stories.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Elizabeth Strout -- Re-education / Jennifer Nguyen -- Love, Faith / Cathy Cruise -- Arlo Doyon / Nancy Aalgaard Hanson -- Jackpot / Lucy Jane Bledsoe -- Chasing fire / William Burleson -- Armando's revenge / Diane Byington -- Herding cats / Morgan Callan Rogers -- An extra room / Trudy Carpenter -- Borderlands / Janine Donoho -- Race Day / Murray Dunlap -- Bait / Melissa Fraterrigo -- Fascination Hall / Stuart Freyer -- Fixer-upper / Jenny Lentz -- The woods ; Lady Moth / Missy Roback -- Cold love / Charmaine Valere -- The fall / Wendy Wakeman -- Duck soup and my mother's double death / Timothy Walsh -- Jesus in right / Tom Wells -- Homecoming / Kara Whelan -- Autumn leaves / Douglas Wyant -- Termination / Barbara Yost.

ISBN

• 9780898233292
• 0898233291

LCCN

^^2014949229

OCLC

921166711

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library