Goolsby Jesse Goolsby

Acceleration Hours (eBook, ePUB)

Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

2020 Reading the West Book Awards, Longlist for Fiction2020 Foreword INDIE awards, longlist From the author of the critically-acclaimed novel, I d Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them, Jesse Goolsby s Acceleration Hours is a haunting collection of narratives about families, life, and loss during America s twenty-first-century forever wars. Set across the mountain west of the United States, these fierce, original, and compelling stories illuminate the personal search for human connection and intimacy. From a stepfather s grief to an AWOL soldier and her journey of reconciliation to a meditation on children, violence, and hope, Acceleration Hours is an intense and necessary portrayal of the many voices living in a time of perpetual war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nevada Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781948908634
• Artikelnr.: 72472860

Autorenporträt

Jesse Goolsby is an award-winning author and associate professor of English and Fine Arts at the United States Air Force Academy. His short fiction and essays have appeared widely, including Epoch, Narrative Magazine, TriQuarterly, The Literary Review, Pleiades, Salon, and the Best American series. He is the recipient of the Richard Bausch Short Story Prize, the John Gardner Memorial Award in Fiction, and fellowships from the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He also serves as the Acquisition Editor for the literary journal War, Literature & the Arts.