Dog Years: 67 (Pitt Drue Heinz Literature Prize) - Softcover

Yancy, Melissa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822965194 ISBN 13: 9780822965190

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017

Synopsis

WINNER OF THE 2016 DRUE HEINZ LITERATURE PRIZE
Winner of the 2017 California Book Awards, first fiction category

Melissa Yancy's personal experience in the milieus of hospitals, medicine, and family services infuse her narratives with a rare texture and gravity. Keenly observant, offering both sharp humor and humanity, these stories explore the ties that bind--both genetic and otherwise--and the fine line between the mundane and the maudlin. Whether the men or women that populate these pages are contending with illness, death, or parenthood, the real focus is on time and our inability to slow its progression, reminding us to revel in those moments we can control.

About this title

About the Author

Melissa Yancy'sshort fiction has appeared in One Story, Glimmer Train, Zyzzyva, and other publications. She is the recipient of a 2016 NEA Literature Fellowship. Stories from Dog Years have won the Glimmer Train Fiction Open, the Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize, and received special mention in the Pushcart Prize. Yancy lives in Los Angeles where she works as a fundraiser for healthcare causes.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822965194
• ISBN 13: 9780822965190
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240