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  title info:
    title: Soon
    sub title: stories
  title info:
    title: Short stories. Selections
  name:
    name part: Durban, Pam
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: short story
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: scu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 115 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Pam Durban's new collection of stories explores the myriad ways people lose, find, and hold on to one another. When all else fails her characters, science, religion, family, self, the powerful act of storytelling itself keeps their broken lives together and fosters hope. Each story in this rewarding and multifaceted collection introduces people who yearn for better lives and find themselves entangled in the hopes and dreams that heal and bind us all. The title story in Soon, chosen by John Updike for The Best American Short Stories of the Century anthology, follows two generations of a family whose lives are driven by the "patient and brutal need that people called hope, which. formed from your present life a future where you would be healed or loved." In "The Jap Room," winner of the 2008 Goodheart Prize, a woman tries to help her husband, a World War II veteran, finally come home. "Rowing to Darien" introduces a famous English actress as she rows away from her husband's rice plantation. In "Hush," a gravely ill man encounters himself in the darkness of Kentucky's iconic Mammoth Cave. An adopted child waits for his mother to come back for him in "Birth Mother," and, in "Forward, Elsewhere, Out," a mother must come to terms with her adolescent son's sexuality. The stories in this collection deftly broach universal themes of love, loss and the redemptive power of storytelling. Durban's writing has been praised for its depth and mastery of characterization, its ability to persuade readers that the lives of the people in her stories are true, that their troubles and pleasures are real enough to matter. The nuanced and artfully rendered cast in this collection wrestles with the big questions that face us all. Why are we here? How are we to live? What matters most? The thirteen stories in Soon have appeared in earlier forms in Atlanta Magazine, Indiana Review, Georgia Review, Carolina Quarterly, Idaho Review, Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Five Points, High …
  note: Pam Durban ; foreword by Mary Hood.
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Literary
  classification: PS3554.U668 A6 2015
  classification: 813/.54
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Story river books
  identifier: 9781611175332
  identifier: 161117533X
  identifier: 9781611175349
  identifier: 2015011306
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150330
    record change date: 20151105215353.0
    record identifier: in00003535609