| Thieves I've Known Contributor(s): Kealey, Tom (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820345377 ISBN-13: 9780820345376 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $24.26 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2012049542 |
| Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.9" W x 8.6" (0.85 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In these wondrously strange and revealing stories, Tom Kealey chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the young and marginalized as they discover many ways of growing up. Their names are Merrill, Omar, Shelby, Laika, Winston, and Toomey, but most people don't see them. They are boxers in training and the children of fishermen. They are altar boys in a poverty-stricken parish. They are assistant groundskeepers and assistant camel-keepers. They travel with the circus, care for disabled siblings, steal police cars, and retrieve the stolen boots of a priest. Ranging in abode from Puget Sound, Washington, to Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, they are abandoned yet courageous and plucky children and teenagers living on the edges of society. Thieves I've Known is a collection of powerful, moving stories about the lives of a redemptive and peculiar cast of young characters who become easy to know and difficult to forget. |
Contributor Bio(s): Zafris, Nancy: - NANCY ZAFRIS is the author of two novels, Lucky Strike and The Metal Shredders. Her stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines, and she is Fiction Editor of the Kenyon Review.Kealey, Tom: - TOM KEALEY is the author of The Creative Writing MFA Handbook. His stories have appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading, Glimmer Train, Story Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, and the San Francisco Chronicle. His nonfiction has appeared in Poets and Writers and The Writer. He received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award. Tom has taught creative writing at Stanford University since 2003. |