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Bill Roorbach is the author of nine books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Flannery O'Connor Prize and O. Henry Prize winner Big Bend; Into Woods; Temple Stream; and most recently, the bestselling Life Among Giants. The 10th anniversary edition of his craft book, Writing Life Stories, is used in writing programs around the world. His work has been published in Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, the New York Times Magazine, Granta, New York, and dozens of other magazines and journals. Life Among Giants was an Editor's Pick for Amazon's Best 2012, a Shelf Awareness Top Ten Best Fiction for 2012, and a winner of the Maine Literary Award for Fiction.
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. First Edition. Nine richly varied often funny always moving stories that reveal the complex workings of the human heartBill Roorbach conjures vivid characters whose layered interior worlds feel at once familiar and extraordinary He first made his mark as the winner of an O Henry Prize for the title story of Big Bend his first collection which won the Flannery OConnor Award His new collection The Girl of the Lake captures a virtuoso in his primeRoorbachs characters are unforgettable among them an adventurous boy who learns what courage really is when an aging nobleman recounts history to him a couple hiking through the mountains whose vacation and relationship ends catastrophically a teenager being pursued by three sisters all at once a tech genius who exacts revenge on his wife and best friend over a stolen kiss from years pastThese moving and funny stories are as rich in scope emotional and memorable as Bill Roorbachs novels He has been called a kinder gentler John Irving a humane and entertaining storyteller with a smooth graceful style the Washington Post and his work has been described as hilarious and heartbreaking wild and wise Parade magazine all of which is evident in spades and also hearts clubs and diamonds in every story in this arresting new collection. Seller Inventory # DADAX1616203323
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