The Old and the Lost: Collected Stories (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) - Softcover

Blake, Glenn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1421421038 ISBN 13: 9781421421032

Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017

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Críticas

"Glenn Blake is an eloquent singer of Gulf Coast storms and tides, both meteorological and human. These collected stories are a true delight."

(John Barth)

"Blake demonstrates just how effective a spare prose style can be. [His] beautiful, poetic diction adds intrigue and gravity to his characters and awakens the mystical, small-town Gulf Coast landscape."

(Texas Review)

"Blake's prose storytelling style is deceptively simple. He writes in a straightforward manner that belies the complexities of the human experience he is at the same time subtly presenting to his reader."

(Richmond Times-Dispatch)

Reseña del editor

"I was born in a land of bayous, raised between rivers," Glenn Blake writes. "There is a place in Southeast Texas where two rivers meet and become one. There is a long bridge over these waters, and as you drive across, you can look to the south and see where the Old River and the Lost River become the Old and the Lost. You can look out as far as you can see and watch this wide water become the bay."

These fourteen stories are set in the swamps, bayous, and sloughs of Southeast Texas, a region that is subsiding―sinking inches every year. The characters who inhabit Blake’s haunting landscape―awash in their own worlds, adrift in their own lives―struggle to salvage what they can of their hopes and dreams from the encroaching tides.

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• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1421421038
• ISBN 13: 9781421421032
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 244