The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories - Hardcover

Richard, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394564855 ISBN 13: 9780394564852

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1989

Synopsis

Ten daring, forceful stories in the Southern gothic tradition explore the grotesque and the ordinary and the blending of the two in tales of family struggles and corruption, good 'ol boys faced with death, and ritual

About this title

About the Author:

Mark Richard is the author of two award-winning short story collections, The Ice at the Bottom of the World and Charity, and the novel Fishboy. His short stories and journalism have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, Vogue, and GQ. He is the recipient of the PEN/Hemingway Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Foundation Writer's Award. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their three sons.

From the Inside Flap:

In these ten stories, Mark Richard, winner of the 1990 PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award, emerges as the heir apparent to Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, and William Faulkner.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0394564855
• ISBN 13: 9780394564852
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144