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Higher Elevations: Stories from the West is a rich and varied anthology of fiction from Writers' Forum. As the subtitle promises, it is regional, but these are not all stories from your grandfather's (or Hollywood's) West. These are rodeos and forest fires, lonely farmhouses, and isolated lives in wide open spaces, but there are also stories of the urban homeless, of teenage girls in the club and drug scene of present-day Austin, of wetbacks, Vietnamese immigrants, literate writers of advertising commercials living in high-rise flats. There are action stories and stories of local color, but there are also Jamesian stories, allusive stories, sophisticated, even brittle stories that, mutatis mutandis, might come from the pages of the New Yorker, though the mutation is refreshing and liberating. Robert Olan Butler's \u201cLove\u201d is hilarious; Brett Lott's \u201cI Owned Vermont\u201d brief, oblique, and penetrating; Charles Baxter's \u201cThe Eleventh Floor\u201d urbane and moving, Lesley Poling Kemper's \u201cEdith's Own\u201d simultaneously awkward and powerful. The anthology has both variety and cohesiveness and its high quality testifies to the almost inexplicable phenomenon of the flourishing of the short story in a market with few outlets. Writers' Forum is to be congratulated for affording an opportunity for excellent writing to see the light of day.
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Twenty years ago when Alex Blackburn moved to Colorado Springs he encountered a region rich in writing but poor in publishing. And so he founded Writers' Forum, a literary annual devoted to publishing new as well as recognized poets and fiction writers, especially those from the American West. To date, Writers' Forum has received more than 20,000 manuscript submissions and published more than 180 fiction writers and 350 poets, many of whom have gone on to achieve literary prominence. Among university-sponsored magazines in the nation's top thirty nonpaying fiction markets, it has been ranked first (Writer's Digest). Higher Elevations is a collection of some of Writers' Forum best work. Authors represented here include Clay Reynolds, Gladys Swan, Craig Lesley, Robert Roripaugh, Reynolds Price, Bret Lott, Russell Martin, Robert O. Greer, Jr., Charles Baxter, Julian Silva, Miles Wilson, Fred Chappell, and Ron Carlson.
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- EditorialSwallow Press
- Año de publicación1993
- ISBN 10 0804009716
- ISBN 13 9780804009713
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- Número de páginas288
- EditorBlackburn Alexander, Pellow C. Kenneth
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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Higher Elevations: Stories from the West is a rich and varied anthology of fiction from Writers Forum. As the subtitle promises, it is regional, but these are not all stories from your grandfathers (or Hollywoods) West. These are rodeos and forest fires, lonely farmhouses, and isolated lives in wide open spaces, but there are also stories of the urban homeless, of teenage girls in the club and drug scene of present-day Austin, of wetbacks, Vietnamese immigrants, literate writers of advertising commercials living in high-rise flats. There are action stories and stories of local color, but there are also Jamesian stories, allusive stories, sophisticated, even brittle stories that, mutatis mutandis, might come from the pages of the New Yorker, though the mutation is refreshing and liberating.Robert Olan Butlers Love is hilarious; Brett Lotts I Owned Vermont brief, oblique, and penetrating; Charles Baxters The Eleventh Floor urbane and moving, Lesley Poling Kempers Ediths Own simultaneously awkward and powerful. The anthology has both variety and cohesiveness and its high quality testifies to the almost inexplicable phenomenon of the flourishing of the short story in a market with few outlets. Writers Forum is to be congratulated for affording an opportunity for excellent writing to see the light of day. Higher Elevations: Stories from the West is a rich and varied anthology of fiction from Writers Forum. As the subtitle promises, it is regional, but these are not all stories from your grandfathers (or Hollywoods) West. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9780804009713
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