Riding the Dog - Softcover

Rosen, Sybil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1631925083 ISBN 13: 9781631925085

Verlag: BOOKBABY, 2015

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Winner of the Gold Medal for Fiction/Short Story
The 2015 Readers' Favorite International Book Award

Riding the Dog is a collection of nine short stories that all take place on a Greyhound bus!  Strangers collide in cramped spaces.  Secrets are told to nameless seatmates in the dark of the bus in the middle of the night.  A woman searches the country for her brother who has been missing since 9/11.  Despite his wariness, a bus driver falls in love with an exotic passenger.  Two strangers exchange trinkets, unaware of a past that connects them  Enter an invisible America on the desperate, resilient, funny and heartbreaking world of the bus.

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Sybil Rosen is an international, award-winning, published novelist, playwright, and memoirist. Her novel for young readers Speed of Light was published by Atheneum (Simon & Schuster) in 1999. It won the 1999 Sydney Taylor Award for Older Readers and was nominated for the 2000 Mark Twain Award. The novel was subsequently published in German by Verlag Urachhaus in 2001. A short story "Shannon" was included in the German anthology for teenagers Mensch Sucht Sinn and was translated into Spanish, Catalon, and Slovene. Rosen's plays have been produced world-wide. Her full-length play Brink of Devotion won the 1987 Berrilla Kerr Award and was a participant in the 1986 Sundance Playwriting Institute in Provo, Utah. Duet for Bear and Dog, a ten-minute play, was published in Take Ten: A Ten-Minute Play Anthology by Vintage Press in 1997 and has received over 200 productions around the world. Last of the Speckled Catfish was a finalist in the 2008 National Ten-Minute Play Contest. Her memoir of Texas music legend Blaze Foley, Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley, was published by The University of North Texas Press in 2008, #2 in their Live of Musicians Series. Riding the Dog is her first collection of short stories.

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• Verlag: BOOKBABY
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1631925083
• ISBN 13: 9781631925085
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 148
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