The Name of the Nearest River : Stories
by
Alex Taylor
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature
ISBN-10
1932511806
ISBN-13
9781932511802
Publisher
Sarabande Books, Incorporated
Imprint
Sarabande Books, Incorporated
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 13th, 2010
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
311 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.20 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Short stories
Ksh 2,350.00
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Stories confronting the unfailing constant of blood in the rough woods of western Kentucky.
2011 Eric Hoffer Award in the General Fiction
2011 The Thomas & Lillie D. Chaffin Award
“Alex Taylor is a fresh new voice, not just in Kentucky, but in American literature.”''
--Chris Offutt
Like a room soaked in the scent of whiskey, perfume, and sweat, Alex Taylor''s America is at once intoxicating, vulnerable, and full of brawn. These stories reveal the hidden dangers in the coyote-infested fields, rusty riverbeds, and abandoned logging trails of Kentucky. There we find tactile, misbegotten characters, desperate for the solace found in love, revenge, or just enough coal to keep an elderly woman''s stove burning a few more nights. Echoing Flannery O''Connor and William Faulkner, Taylor manages fervor as well as humor in these dusky, shotgun plots, where in one story, a man spends seven days in a jon boat with his fiddle and a Polaroid camera, determined to enact vengeance on the water-logged body of a used car salesman; and in another, a demolition derby enthusiast nicknamed "Wife" watches his two wild, burning love interests duke it out, only to determine he would rather be left alone entirely. Together, these stories present a resonant debut collection from an unexpected new voice in Southern fiction.
Alex Taylor has worked as a day laborer on tobacco farms, as a car detailer at a used automotive lot, as a sorghum peddler, as a tender of suburban lawns, at various fast food chains, and at a cigarette lighter factory. He holds an MFA from the University of Mississippi and now teaches at Western Kentucky University. He lives in Rosine, Kentucky.
2011 The Thomas & Lillie D. Chaffin Award
“Alex Taylor is a fresh new voice, not just in Kentucky, but in American literature.”''
--Chris Offutt
Like a room soaked in the scent of whiskey, perfume, and sweat, Alex Taylor''s America is at once intoxicating, vulnerable, and full of brawn. These stories reveal the hidden dangers in the coyote-infested fields, rusty riverbeds, and abandoned logging trails of Kentucky. There we find tactile, misbegotten characters, desperate for the solace found in love, revenge, or just enough coal to keep an elderly woman''s stove burning a few more nights. Echoing Flannery O''Connor and William Faulkner, Taylor manages fervor as well as humor in these dusky, shotgun plots, where in one story, a man spends seven days in a jon boat with his fiddle and a Polaroid camera, determined to enact vengeance on the water-logged body of a used car salesman; and in another, a demolition derby enthusiast nicknamed "Wife" watches his two wild, burning love interests duke it out, only to determine he would rather be left alone entirely. Together, these stories present a resonant debut collection from an unexpected new voice in Southern fiction.
Alex Taylor has worked as a day laborer on tobacco farms, as a car detailer at a used automotive lot, as a sorghum peddler, as a tender of suburban lawns, at various fast food chains, and at a cigarette lighter factory. He holds an MFA from the University of Mississippi and now teaches at Western Kentucky University. He lives in Rosine, Kentucky.
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