Author : John Mort
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268104085
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Down Along the Piney by : John Mort
Download or read book Down Along the Piney written by John Mort and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down Along the Piney is John Mort’s fourth short-story collection and winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction. With settings in Florida, California, Mexico, Chicago, the Texas Panhandle, and, of course, the Ozarks themselves, these thirteen stories portray the unsung, amusing, brutal, forever hopeful lives of ordinary people. Mort chronicles the struggles of "flyover" people who live not just in the Midwest, but anywhere you can find a farm, small town, or river winding through forested hills. Mort, whose earlier stories have appeared in the New Yorker, GQ, and The Chicago Tribune, is the author of the award-winning Vietnam War novel Soldier in Paradise, as well as Goat Boy of the Ozarks and The Illegal. These ironic, unflaggingly honest stories will remind the reader of Jim Harrison, Sherwood Anderson, and Shirley Jackson.