Typical - Softcover

Powell, Padgett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805071229 ISBN 13: 9780805071221

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 2001

Synopsis

Ida Fink's first collection of stories, A Scrap of Time, was universally hailed as a masterpiece. Traces continues Fink's portrait of life in Nazi-occupied Poland, of men and women otherwise buried in the anonymous statistics of war and genocide.

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Review

“A sparkling collection.” —Time
“Powell takes short stories to places where I’ve rarely seen them go.” —Chicago Tribune
“Powerful . . . Powell has an almost unequaled ability to bring Southern colloquial speech to the page.” —The New York Times
“Lyrically intense and full of the surreal juxtapositions you find in the flotsam of floodwaters: stories at once edgy and exuberant.” —Kirkus Reviews 

About the Author

Padgett Powell is the author of six novels, including The Interrogative Mood and You & Me. His novel Edisto was a finalist for the National Book Award. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Little Star, and the Paris Review, and he is the recipient of the Rome Fellowship in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Whiting Writers’ Award. He lives in Gainesville, Florida, where he teaches writing at MFA@FLA, the writing program of the University of Florida. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805071229
• ISBN 13: 9780805071221
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 207