Destination Known (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize) - Hardcover

Block, Brett Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822941686 ISBN 13: 9780822941682

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001

Synopsis

Winner of the 2001 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction, these stories explore the detours, potholes, and speed bumps along the road of life and the struggle to get behind the wheel and take control.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"Block's characters are often in that interestingly desperate condition halfway between comedy and total despair. Her stories have a headlong momentum, and a clear, fierce intelligence."-Charles Baxter

"In language that is truthful, focused, deceptively ordinary, and always observant, Block crafts stories about intimations of disaster or moments of awakening. These stories combine the blue collar texture and bulldog perplexity we associate with Raymond Carver and , on the other hand, the clipped economies of William Carlos Williams." -C. Michael Curtis

About the Author:

Brett Ellen Block is a New Jersey native whose stories have appeared in The Sonora Review, The Mid-American Review, The Red Cedar Review, and various anthologies. Past winner of the Hopwood Prize and the Haugh Prize, she lives in Los Angeles where she is at work on her first novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0822941686
• ISBN 13: 9780822941682
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160