True Places Never Are

Short Stories
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-913785-58-4
Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US

Buch, Englisch, 205 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 119 mm x 191 mm, Gewicht: 259 g

In her debut collection, winner of the 2014 Moon City Short Fiction Award, Cate McGowan introduces us to a passenger manifest, an assortment of characters voyaging through loss and salvation. The book's title borrows from Melville's Moby Dick: ""It is not down on any map; true places never are."" McGowan's characters are off the chart; they venture into wondrous worlds as knotty and distressing as the places they aim to leave.

With poetic prose and a flashlight pointed at the dark spots in her characters' souls, McGowan gives us nineteen tales located in a colony of laundromats and the Louvre; of mule pulls and boxing rings; of Georgia red clay and city cobblestones. Populating these worlds is an unusual hodgepodge of everyman--children, men, and women who inhabit different eras and countries, all seeking deliverance. They occupy the aftermath of tragedy.

True places are indeed hard to find in this collection, yet hope is every person's traveling companion. In True Places Never Are, McGowan reminds us redemption is not that far away. This book will take you to places you never dreamed of going and aren't quite sure you want to stay, but you won't regret the journey.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McGowan, Cate

Über Autor(innen)

Cate McGowan is an award-winning author and Georgia native, USA who's been anthologized in W. W. Norton's Flash Fiction International. She's contributed to many magazines and literary publications, including Glimmer Train, Louisville Review, Moon City Review, and Vestal Review, and the English fashion magazine, Tank. Cate's been an editor for the Louisville Review and SFWP and an arts writer and essayist for national outlets. Named a top college professor on Ratemyprofessors.com, she teaches writing in Florida, USA.