The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories
by:
Mark Richard (author)
Ten stories of superb daring and force span the Southern Gothic tradition. Mark Richard has three stories featured in Esquire.
Ten stories of superb daring and force span the Southern Gothic tradition. Mark Richard has three stories featured in Esquire.
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Format: Textbook
ISBN:
9780385415446 (0385415443)
ASIN: 9780385415446
Publish date: 28-01-1991
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Edition language: English
Robert's rec, and much appreciated. The opening story ("Strays") far and away my favorite, but it's also a high-water mark for stories generally: bleakly funny prose and plot, and ideas boiled down to images like sharp pebbles, seemingly insignificant but they hit with real sting. (I'm particularl...
This is a hit and miss story collection, but the hits were something special.