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A Perfect Souvenir : Stories about Travel from the Flannery o'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laughman, Ethan.
- Series:
- Flannery o'Connor Award for Short Fiction Series
- The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Travel, and the exhilarating experiences it offers us, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series.More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this anthology on childhoodand for planned anthologies on such topics as family, gender and sexuality, animals, and more.Travel can whisk us away to craggy mountainsides and sunny coastlines or bustling cities and mysterious jungles. Travel can excite and rejuvenate or intimidate and overwhelm. These sixteen stories reflect upon our immense, intriguing world and our explorations of it, whether you choose to follow the beaten path or abandon it.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: The Cities He Would Never Be Sure Of / Peter Lasalle
- Disturbing No One / Melissa Pritchard
- Rapture / Susan Neville
- The Purchase of Order / Gail Galloway Adams
- Revenge / Daniel Curley
- Frog Boy / Dianne Nelson Oberhansly
- Theory of the Leisure Class / E. J. Levy
- Hindsight / Mary Hood
- Borderland / Margot Singer
- Idyllic Little Bali / Lori Ostlund
- Montauk / Sandra Thompson
- Chiclets / Anne Panning
- Jimi Hendrix, Bluegrass Star / Geoffrey Becker
- Lost in Rancho Mirage / Dennis Hathaway
- Rosie / Philip F. Deaver
- From Bremerton / Tom Kealey.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8203-5843-6
- OCLC:
- 1203951036
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