The Old and the lost : collected stories / Glenn Blake.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blake, Glenn, author.

Series:

Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction

Johns Hopkins: poetry and fiction

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Texas, South--Fiction.

Texas, South.

Southern States--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016]

Summary:

" 'I was born in a land of bayous, raised between rivers,' Glenn Blake writes. 'There is a place in Southeast Texas where two rivers meet and become one. There is a long bridge over these waters, and as you drive across, you can look to the south and see where the Old River and the Lost River become the Old and the Lost. You can look out as far as you can see and watch this wide water become the bay.' These collected stories are set in the swamps, bayous, and sloughs of Southeast Texas, a countryside that is subsiding--sinking inches every year beneath the waves. The characters who inhabit Blake's haunting landscape--awash in their own worlds, adrift in their own lives--struggle to salvage what they can of their hopes and dreams from the encroaching tides" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Return fire

Deguello

Old river

The bottom

Hazard

How far are we from the water?

Chocolate bay

Westerns

When the gods want to punish you

Thanksgiving

Open season

Marsh

Shooting stars

The old and the lost.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781421421049

1421421046

OCLC:

965158036