Jacob M Appel

Broschiertes Buch

Miracles and Conundrums of the Secondary Planets

Beschreibung

Fiction. Named one of Kirkus Reviews' The Best Fiction Books of 2015. "Appel presents a cast of characters worthy of his quirky title. Among them Red Ziggy, a restaurateur from a distant planet who opens Birmingham, Alabama's only Latvian eatery, and Happy Gallows, a widower with granddaughter who advertises in the newspaper for 'housekeeping and discourse.' The topics are weighty--abortion, climate change, cancer--but the touch light enough to make you wonder whether you're reading miracles and conundrums of this world or some other. An intriguing read."--George Harrar, author of Reunion at Red Paint Bay "A fine collection of memorable stories with a delicately surreal edge."-- Kirkus, starred review

Autor

Jacob M. Appel is a doctor, lawyer, medical bioethicist, and a widely published fiction writer. In addition to THE TOPLESS WIDOW OF HERKIMER STREET (Howling Bird Press, 2016), he has written nine books, including, most recently, MIRACLES AND CONUNDRUMS OF THE SECONDARY PLANET (Black Lawrence Press, 2015). His first novel, The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up, won the Dundee International Book Award in 2012. His short story collection SCOUTING FOR THE REAPER (Black Lawrence Press, 2014) won the 2012 Hudson Prize. He has won the Boston Review Short Fiction Competition, the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for the Short Story, the Dana Award, and many other honors. He has published short fiction in more than two hundred literary journals, including Agni, Conjunctions, The Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and West Branch. Appel holds graduate degrees from Brown University, where he also taught for many years, Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Harvard Law School, New York University's MFA program in fiction, and Albany Medical College's Alden March Institute of Bioethics. A resident of New York, he currently teaches at the Gotham Writer's Workshop and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chicago Review Press Inc DBA Indepe
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9781625579331
• ISBN-10: 1625579330
• Artikelnr.: 61445617