New Stories from the South: The Year's Best

by Shannon Ravenel (ed)

Book Overview

It would be easy to describe the stories in this year's collection as typically Southern, if we only knew what that was. As Lee Smith writes in her engaging and provocative preface, the South is both as it always was and profoundly different. Some things have stayed the same: "As a whole, we Southerners are still religious, and we are still violent. We'll bring you a casserole, but we'll kill you, too." And some things have changed: many a Southerner...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565123115
• ISBN13: 9781565123113
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"