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Holding Pattern

Stories

Holding Pattern( )
Author: Allen, Jeffery Renard
ISBN:978-1-55597-509-8
Publication Date:Sep 2008
Publisher:Graywolf Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $15.00
Book Description:

The world of Jeffery Renard Allen's stunning short-story collection is a place like no other. A recognizable city, certainly, but one in which a man might sprout wings or copper pennies might fall from the skies onto your head. Yet these are no fairy tales. The hostility, the hurt, is all too human.

The protagonists circle each other with steely determination: a grandson taunts his grandmother, determined to expose her secret past; for years, a sister tries to keep a menacing...
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Book Details
Pages:256
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.44 x 8.56 x 0.72 Inches
Book Weight:0.836 Pounds
Author Biography
Allen, Jeffery Renard (Author)


Jeffery Allen is the author of two collections of poetry, Stellar Places and Harbors and Spirits, and two works of fiction, the widely celebrated novel, Rails Under My Back, which won The Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for Fiction, and the story collection Holding Pattern, which won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. His other awards include a Whiting Writer's Award, a support grant from Creative Capital, The Chicago Public Library's Twenty-first Century Award, a Recognition for Pioneering Achievements in Fiction from the African American Literature and Culture Association, the 2003 Charles Angoff award for fiction from The Literary Review, and special citations from the Society for Midlands Authors and the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation.

He has been a fellow at The Dorothy L. and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library, a John Farrar Fellow in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a Walter E. Dakins Fellow in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers' Conference.

In 2015 he was named a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his title Song of the Shank.

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