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AFTER THE PARADE
AFTER THE PARADE follows Aaron Englund as he leaves his longtime partner and moves to San Francisco, prompting him to revisit a Midwestern childhood defined by his father's death and his mother's depression.
Like John Irving's finest tragicomic novels, AFTER THE PARADE defies tidy synopsis, the main narrative unfolding nonlinearly, anchoring a rich tapestry of stories within stories and encounters with such colorfully drawn characters as Paul Bunyan reenactors, religious zealots, a gun-toting redheaded German-speaking neighbor, an unintentional exorcist, a dwarf who works as a grocery store clerk, a sensitive alcoholic ice fisherman, closeted gay men married to women, twins who groom each other, and parents and children who've lost one another to deadly accidents and suicide.
Lori Ostlund's collection of stories, The Bigness of the World, received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the California Book Award's Gold Medal for First Fiction, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award. In addition, the collection was a Lambda Award finalist, shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and named a Notable Book by The Story Prize. Stories from the collection have appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2010 (edited by Richard Russo), The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, and New England Review, among other publications. Ostlund is the recipient of a 2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and is the only fiction writer to have been a two-time Kenan Visiting Writer at UNC-Chapel Hill. She lives in San Francisco with her part¬ner of twenty years. Please visit her online at www.loriostlund.com.
DAS LEBEN IST EIN MERKWueRDIGER ORT
Deutsch von Pieke Biermann
[HC dtv 08/16; TB dtv 11/17]
Like John Irving's finest tragicomic novels, AFTER THE PARADE defies tidy synopsis, the main narrative unfolding nonlinearly, anchoring a rich tapestry of stories within stories and encounters with such colorfully drawn characters as Paul Bunyan reenactors, religious zealots, a gun-toting redheaded German-speaking neighbor, an unintentional exorcist, a dwarf who works as a grocery store clerk, a sensitive alcoholic ice fisherman, closeted gay men married to women, twins who groom each other, and parents and children who've lost one another to deadly accidents and suicide.
Lori Ostlund's collection of stories, The Bigness of the World, received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the California Book Award's Gold Medal for First Fiction, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award. In addition, the collection was a Lambda Award finalist, shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and named a Notable Book by The Story Prize. Stories from the collection have appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2010 (edited by Richard Russo), The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, and New England Review, among other publications. Ostlund is the recipient of a 2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and is the only fiction writer to have been a two-time Kenan Visiting Writer at UNC-Chapel Hill. She lives in San Francisco with her part¬ner of twenty years. Please visit her online at www.loriostlund.com.
DAS LEBEN IST EIN MERKWueRDIGER ORT
Deutsch von Pieke Biermann
[HC dtv 08/16; TB dtv 11/17]
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