This collection of short stories brings together the work of four award-winning fiction writers from South Carolina. The range of styles and subjects of these stories is as diverse as the landscape of the Palmetto State--from the offbeat humor of George Singleton's Outlaw Head and Tail, to the piercing passion of Rosa Shand's Density of Sunlight, to the sprawling strange drama of Scott Gould's Nothing Fazes the Autopilot, to the strange twists of Deno Trakas's Eugene. Introductions to the authors are provided by prominent novelists Josephine Humphreys, Fred Chappell, Bret Lott and Shelby Hearon.
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Inside these pages are philosophers and barkeeps, movie-makers and artists, airlane pilots and eccentric great-aunts, lovestruck teens and 40-something hoopsters. There are characters confronting race, defying convention, and exploring the meaning of love. Settings range from the semi-jungle of Uganda to the imaginary world of Christ Almighty, North Carolina; along the way, there are vine-covered Southern homesteads, damp campgrounds and ubiquitous suburban malls. There's even a house at the bottom of a lake. To tell more would be to reveal too many of the surprises found within the pages of New Southern Harmonies. These are some of the best tales told by the most celebrated fiction writers of the South Carolina Piedmont. Some are brand-new stories; others have already been discovered and published by such noted journals and magazines as The Kenyon Review, The Oxford American, and Playboy. Together, they create a delightful chorus that is clear powerful and destined to endure.
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"Rosa Shand is an author of arresting grace." -- Josephine Humphreys. "I savor the stories of Deno Trakas because I know I'm guaranteed good talk."--Shelby Hearon "These are the stories George Singleton was born to write."--Fred Chappell "This is grace, my friends, the way Scott Gould can give us stories that seem not to have been written, but simply are." --Bret Lott
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This review is from: New Southern Harmonies : Four Emerging Fiction Writers (Paperback)
This book is a hidden gem. Every story in it is breathtakingly good. Not only that, the stories are incredibly diverse -- some are hysterical, some are heartwarming, some are clever, some are moving and socially significant, some are pleasurable flashes of imaginative brilliance.It's no surprise that these authors are all award-winning, or that most of the stories have already been published in some of the best magazines for short fiction. Nor is it surprising that, as I just read on the publisher's site, this book received the IPPY award in 1999 from Independent Publisher magazine as the best book of short fiction by an independent press in North America. What is surprising is that all four of these authors appear to live in, or at least be from, the same region. Fascinating, and you wouldn't know it by the sheer variety of material and styles therein. Quite a find, and a book to treasure.
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