Salvation And Other Disasters - Softcover

Novakovich, Josip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555972713 ISBN 13: 9781555972714

Publisher: Graywolf Press,U.S., 1998

Synopsis

Josip Novakovich brings his own particular blend of village wit and urban sophistication to this collection of stories, some fabulist and absurd, some charged with the realities and politics of war-torn Croatia.

About this title

About the Authors

Josip Novakovich is a fiction writer and essayist. Born in Croatia, he is currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. His published work includes Yolk, Apricots from Chernobyl, and Fiction Writer's Workshop, and many of his stories, essays, and poetry have appeared in Double Take, the Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, the New York Times Magazine, among others, and in three Pushcart Prize anthologies and Best American Poetry 1997. He is the winner of a 1997 Whiting Writers' Award, an Ingram Merrill Award, the Richard Margolis Prize for Socially Important Writing, and a NEA Fellowship for Fiction Writing. Novakovich has a B.A. from Vassar College, a Masters in Divinity from Yale University, and a Masters in English/Creative Writing from the University of Texas. He lives in Blue Creek, Ohio, with his wife and two children.

Josip Novakovich is a fiction writer and essayist. Born in Croatia, he is currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. His published work includesYolk, Apricots from Chernobyl, and Fiction Writer's Workshop, and many of his stories, essays, and poetry have appeared inDouble Take, the Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, the New York Times Magazine, among others, and in threePushcart Prize anthologies and Best American Poetry 1997. He is the winner of a 1997 Whiting Writers' Award, an Ingram Merrill Award, the Richard Margolis Prize for Socially Important Writing, and a NEA Fellowship for Fiction Writing. Novakovich has a B.A. from Vassar College, a Masters in Divinity from Yale University, and a Masters in English/Creative Writing from the University of Texas. He lives in Blue Creek, Ohio, with his wife and two children.

From the Back Cover

"Like brilliant flashes of exploding artillery, many of Josip Novakovich's wonderful stories illuminate the (ordinary and extraordinary, blameless and evil, unique and exemplary) lives torn apart by the most recent Balkan conflict. These powerful and affectionate tales come rushing in off the battlefield to bring us shocking news about ourselves, at peace and at war."--Francine Prose

Award-winning writer Josip Novakovich brings his own particular blend of village wit and urban sophistication to this collection of stories, some fabulist and absurd, some charged with the realities and politics of war-torn Croatia. A darkly ironic voice emerges in these provocative tales, filled with grim energy, sly amusement, and often nightmarish situations. Following his critically acclaimed previous titles, Yolk and Apricots from Chernobyl, Salvation and Other Disasters shows us once again why Kirkus Reviews said, "[It] should be a source of some national pride, that Novakovich is now an American writer."

Edition details

• Publisher: Graywolf Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555972713
• ISBN 13: 9781555972714
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 205