Fincke Gary Fincke

Proper Words for Sin (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Coal burns underground and destroys a small town. A woman confronts police officers with her pet copperheads. A young girl drinks Drano. A man is banned from his favorite bar.Within these eleven short stories, Flannery O Connor Award winner and poet Gary Fincke brings into focus the small struggles of ordinary people. The characters within this collection, from boys and girls to fathers, mothers, and the aging, live in cities, in towns, and in rural areas. Yet, no matter the surroundings, all seem alone within a collective anxiety. Set against extraordinary events, such as the Three Mile Island accident, the Challenger Disaster, and the Kennedy assassination, these stories personalize history through a juxtaposition between large and small tragedies and the unflinching desire to find insight within and redemption from weakness and shortcoming.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: West Virginia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781935978893
• Artikelnr.: 72461091

Autorenporträt

Gary Fincke's latest collection of poems, The Infinity Room, won the Wheelbarrow Books Prize for Established Poets (Michigan State, 2019). Winner of Poetry Magazine's Bess Hokin Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and Ohio State's Wheeler Prize, he has published fourteen collections of poetry. His fiction and nonfiction collections have won the Flannery O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction and the Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose. He recently retired after founding and then directing the Writers Institute at Susquehanna University for decades.