Walking on Water, and Other Stories

248 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Walking on Water gathers together an engaging and compellingcollection of short stories by 24 of the many talented writers to havegraduated from The University of Alabama's Program in Creative Writingover the past 20 years. Editor Allen Wier, who taught fiction writingat Alabama from 1980 to 1994, offers us in this celebration of writinga variety of fictional voices that represent widely differingsensibilities and visions. Some stories are by writers whose literarycareers are well begun, while others appear here in print for the firsttime. Wier named the collection after the story by Kim Trevathan, thisauthor's first published fiction, because walkingon water is such an apt figure for what the fiction writer attempts>Walking on Water is an outstanding anthology, surprising in the richvariety of its voices and stances, extraordinary in the sustained qualityof all of the 24 stories.

• ISBN: 9780817307851
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.02.1996
• Größe: 235 x 152 mm
• Verlag: University of Alabama Press
• Herausgegeben von: Allen Wier