Reliable Light (Rutgers Press fiction) - Hardcover

Steinbach, Meredith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813515319 ISBN 13: 9780813515311

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 1990

Synopsis

A collection of short stories, dealing with a migrant woman's attempts to fit into a bigoted society, a nursing home-bound woman recalling her youth, and the aftermath of the Vietnam War

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About the Author

Biography Meredith Steinbach is the author of novels and collections of fiction: The Charmed Life of Flowers: Field Notes from Provence (Winner of the International General Fiction Category at the 2013 Paris Book Festival), Zara, Here Lies The Water, The Birth of the World as We Know It; or, Teiresias, Reliable Light, and Beata Rustica: The Tale of the Would-Be Saint (forthcoming, 2013); one play: In the Realm of Which There is No Sign; and a number of works in progress. Prizes and honors have included 2013, Paris Book Festival, Best of General Fiction Category; New England Book Festival, Honorable Mention, General Fiction Category; O. Henry Award for the Short Story; Bunting Fellowship at Harvard-Radcliffe; 100 Distinguished Stories, Best American Short Stories; National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship; Pushcart Prize for the Short Story, Travel Grant from the Thomas J. Watson Institute for research in France and Greece; Rhode Island State Artist's Grants, among others. Meredith Steinbach lives with her family in a sea captain's cottage on the Rhode Island coast and is Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813515319
• ISBN 13: 9780813515311
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250