Nothing Like an Ocean: Stories

by Jim Tomlinson

Jim Tomlinson's previous book of short stories, Things Kept, Things Left Behind, won the prestigious Iowa Short Fiction Award and received enthusiastic reviews. The New York Times compared the strong sense of place in Tomlinson's writing to that found in the works of Flannery O'Connor and Alice Munro. The stories in his new collection, Nothing Like An Ocean, also reflect Tomlinson's awareness of place, revisiting the fictional town of Spivey, a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813125405
• ISBN13: 9780813125404
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher