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Salvation and Other Disasters: Short Stories

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Salvation and Other Disasters: Short Stories

Josip Novakovich

A short story collection about migration, crisis, and dark humor in the aftermath of war.

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Work Information

A short story collection about migration, crisis, and dark humor in the aftermath of war.

Book Information

Publisher
Graywolf Pr
Published
1998-05-01
Pages
203 pages
Language
英語
Size
14.61 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm
ISBN-13
9781555972714
ISBN-10
1555972713
Price
18194 JPY
Category
洋書/Literature & Fiction/Short Stories/Single Author

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."

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 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.

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