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These stories are enveloped by change and the changes that shift
the trajectories of our lives: change that shatters us, change that
opens the world, and change from which we can never come back.
These fourteen stories tell us about extensive and inevitable
changes and how we realign ourselves and our lives, if we can.
Growing up can mean growing pains and the joys of new independence.
With maturity comes the shift from infinite possibilities to
imminent realities. These thirteen stories describe the slow and
subtle experience of growing up, allowing us to reflect upon the
forces that pushed us toward adulthood and away from the familiar
ground of youth that must be left behind if we are to learn how to
soar on our own.
Front porches, family cars, playgrounds, swimming pools: from such
familiar haunts of childhood, these stories look out on the world
through young eyes and hearts. Wise beyond their years - or soon to
be - Ruthie, Omar, J.J., and the other kids in these stories veer
in and out of touching distance to hard lessons about trust, love,
and mortality. However engaged or aloof, grownups are always
nearby. Far-from-perfect emissaries to the realm of adulthood, they
pose questions for children even as they offer answers.
Set on the field of play, or maybe just its memory, these stories
of the sporting life range beyond the expected to include such
pursuits as yoga, billiards, horse racing, cards, and boxing. Here,
even iconic sports like football, basketball, and baseball get a
fresh take through stories that might feature a losing coach, a
woman hoopster, or a groundskeeper (rather than a star player).
Whether front-and-center as a story's driving force or as a
backdrop for other concerns, the skill, cunning, and aggression on
display here are familiar to all of us - as players, willing or
not, in all manner of contests.
In these wondrously strange and revealing stories, Tom Kealey
chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the young and marginalized
as they discover many ways of growing up. Their names are Merrill,
Omar, Shelby, Laika, Winston, and Toomey, but most people don't see
them. They are boxers in training and the children of fishermen.
They are altar boys in a poverty-stricken parish. They are
assistant groundskeepers and assistant camel-keepers. They travel
with the circus, care for disabled siblings, steal police cars, and
retrieve the stolen boots of a priest. Ranging in abode from Puget
Sound, Washington, to Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, they are
abandoned yet courageous and plucky children and teenagers living
on the edges of society. Thieves I've Known is a collection of
powerful, moving stories about the lives of a redemptive and
peculiar cast of young characters who become easy to know and
difficult to forget.
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 childhood-and 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.
"The Creative Writing MFA Handbook" guides prospective graduate
students through the difficult process of researching, applying to,
and choosing graduate schools in creative writing. This second
edition updates and builds upon the first edition, which was
published in 2005 to great acclaim."The Creative Writing MFA
Handbook" guides prospective graduate students through the
difficult process of researching, applying to, and choosing
graduate schools in creative writing. The handbook includes
profiles of fifty creative writing programs, guidance through the
application process, advice from current professors and students
including George Saunders, Aimee Bender, Tracy K. Smith, and
Geoffrey Wolff, and the most comprehensive listings of graduate
writing programs in and outside the United States.The handbook also
includes special sections about Low-Residency writing programs,
Ph.D. programs, publishing in literary journals, and workshop and
teaching advice. In a remarkably concise, user-friendly fashion,
"The Creative Writing MFA Handbook" answers as many questions as
possible, and is packed with information, advice, and experience.
This second edition updates and builds upon the first edition,
which was published in 2005 to great acclaim and contains a vastly
expanded ranking of current creative writing programs.
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