Nocturnal America
Paperback
Series: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
Publisher Price: $24.95
ISBN13: 9780803271777
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Nov 1 2013
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, this collection of tales returns readers to the American Northwest so deftly observed and powerfully evoked in John Keeble's previous works. Nocturnal America occupies a terrain at once familiar and strange, where homecoming and dislocation can coincide, and families can break apart or hone themselves on the hard edges of daily life. In these stories, Keeble populates what journalist Joel Garreau once called the Empty Quarter of North America with complex humanity. Life ranges vibrantly through these airy spaces, at times finding itself thrown up against the shifty terrors of political and cultural change.
Keeble's stories hinge on love--its difficulty, its loss and pangs, but also its discovery of good fortune. As his characters come and go, unexpectedly converging, vanishing, or reappearing, their stories reach beyond the ordinariness of life.
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