Irish Girl
Author(s): Tim Johnston
Series: Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction
Contributors: Tim Johnston (author)
Format: Paperback, 216 x 140mm , 152 pp
Publication date: 15 Nov 2009
Publisher: University of North Texas Press,U.S.
ISBN-10: 157441271X
EAN: 9781574412710
Inside Tim Johnston's "Irish Girl", readers will find spellbinding stories of loss, absence, and the devastating effects of chance - of what happens when the unthinkable bad luck of other people, of other towns, becomes our bad luck, our town. Taut, lucid, and engrossing, provocative and dark - and often darkly funny - these stories have much to offer the lover of literary fiction as well as the reader who just loves a great story.
Reviews:
"This is white-knuckle prose; it means what it says and it says what it means. Not that I count words, but when an image can be etched in fewer than ten, I sit up and take notice. When an image is limned in fewer than five words, I pretty near shiver. The stories in Irish Girl provide more shiver per page than most stories provide in twenty." - Janet Peery, judge and author of The River Beyond the World"
Author Biography:
TIM JOHNSTON was born in Iowa City, Iowa. When his first novel, Never So Green, was published, he was working as a carpenter in Hollywood, California. His fiction has been included in the O. Henry Prize Stories and David Sedaris' anthology of favorites, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules. Awarded a MacDowell Fellowship in 2008, Tim is currently back in Iowa City, writing a new novel.