The Faster Redder Road

The Best Unamerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8263-5583-6
Verlag: University of New Mexico Press

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 604 g

This collection showcases the best writings of Stephen Graham Jones, whose career is developing rapidly from the noir underground to the mainstream. The Faster Redder Road features excerpts from Jones’s novels—including The Last Final Girl, The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong, Not for Nothing, and The Gospel of Z—and short stories, some never before published in book form.

Examining Jones’s contributions to American literature as well as noir, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.’s introduction puts Jones on the literary map.

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Stephen Graham Jones is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Colorado, USA. He is the author of twenty-one books, including The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong, Ledfeather, The Gospel of Z, and Bleed into Me: A Book of Stories. The honours his work has received include the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse H. Jones Award for Fiction and the Independent Publisher Book Award for Multicultural Fiction. He is the recipient of the Writers’ League of Texas Fellowship in Literature and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature.

Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. is an assistant professor of Native American studies at the University of Montana, USA, and the former assistant dean and director of the Native American Cultural Center at Yale University, USA. He is a chapter contributor in the work Seeing Red—Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins: American Indians and Film.