Racing Home’s stories are as remarkable as its authors, who have won over 80 literary awards between them, reminding us that North Carolina really is “The State of the Arts.”
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From the Inside Flap
"The Old North State is world-famous for producing writers. It is a mystery and a source of pride that we bring up so many, like tobacco plants from the soil... [and] our state-wide flood of words continues to gush, in this cell-phoned, jet-planed, faxed, sonogrammed, internetted, CD-ROMed, gigabyte age. Whether we're drinking cappucino or moonshine, eating caviar or chitlins, it seems the central itch, that desire to get it down, to get it down right, to write, continues on, propelled by I-don't-know-what, but it continues to gnaw at our souls and keep us writing. We North Carolinians continue to pick up the pen -- or turn on the computer -- and communicate. Can I get an Amen?
"No doubt we'll be hearing a great deal from these storytellers."
Randall Kenan
About the Author
Editor Sharlene Baker founded The Paper Journey Press in 2000 in Durham, North Carolina, with its motto: "Dedicated to The American Fictional Dream". She is the author of a novel "Finding Signs" (Knopf, Warner) and co-author of the movie "Love Always" (Legacy Releasing). She has taught Screenwriting at Duke University, Creative Writing for the University of North Carolina (where she authored two distance-learning courses)and numerous courses for Duke's Department of Continuing Education and other venues.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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New voices in contemporay and southern fiction,
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This review is from: Racing Home: New Stories by Award-Winning North Carolina Writers (Paperback)
A nice collection of short stories from up-and-coming authors. If you are like me you enjoy discovering the new voices in fiction and that is what this collection offers. Good, solid story telling that is an interesting mix of southern genre and intriguing contemporay tales. Several stories I found particularly strong and mature, the kind that linger. If you appreciate short stories you will enjoy this book.
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Quirky, riviting book of the New South,
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This review is from: Racing Home: New Stories by Award-Winning North Carolina Writers (Paperback)
found this to be a quirky but solid collection of the type that a friend of mine once dubbed "Southern Realism" because of its strange, dark and moving elements. Oh, yes, there's humor and lightness, but it's like the quote on the cover, which is what made me want to buy the book to begin with: "These folks all write like Archangels With Avenging Pens". I read a lot of Southern Fiction and can't get enough of the "New South". It's exploratory and revealing and always entertaining, with characters you simply have to believe in because who could make them up? This book abounds in these qualities. There's a good variety here, too... the stories deal far outside what most people would think of when they think of The South, but which is, indeed, the South. I have to admit that I was impressed with the litany of honors that these writers had won. I hadn't heard of most of them, so I guess there's a lot more going on in short story writing than even an avid short story reader like myself realizes. It's a good read, and if you have a leaning toward North Carolina writers as I do, you may end up wanting to add this to your collecton as I have, next to "Rough Road Home" and "Christ-Haunted Landscape" and "Best Stories from the South".
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Rich as the Red Clay of Georgia,
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This review is from: Racing Home: New Stories by Award-Winning North Carolina Writers (Paperback)
What a wonderful collection of new voices to represent the literary South. Faulkner and Williams would be proud.
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