Little Raw Souls - Softcover

Schwartz, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932870652 ISBN 13: 9781932870657

Publisher: Autumn House Press, 2013

Synopsis

Winner of the 2014 Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction

2013 ForeWord Book of the Year Award - Gold Medal Winner in Short Stories

About this title

About the Author:

Steven Schwartz grew up outside Chester, Pennsylvania, and has lived in Colorado for the past thirty years. He is the author of two story collections, To Leningrad in Winter and Lives of the Fathers, and two novels, Therapy and A Good Doctors Son. His writing has received the Nelson Algren Award, the Cohen Award, the Colorado Book Award for the Novel, two O. Henry Prize Story Awards, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the Cleanth Brooks Prize in Nonfiction from The Southern Review. Married with two grown children, he teaches creative writing at Colorado State University and in the low-residency Warren Wilson MFA Program.

From Booklist:

*Starred Review* Schwartz appreciates that a compelling plotline can contribute intensity to the brief life of a short story. All of these 11 stories arrest the reader from their opening paragraphs; their fully engaging plots include a western farmer allowing a hippie-dippie couple the temporary use of a cabin on his property but finding peace and love quickly turning to violence; a young person’s crush on a cousin turns very provocative when the cousin, years later, shows up for a reunion no longer her original gender; a high-school teacher holds a gun to his head in front of his class with the full intention of using it; and a married man faces, under stressful circumstances, his own competitiveness with both his former girlfriend and his wife. But Schwartz is careful to use his strong, even page-turning plots to service the short story form’s primary responsibility: to capture a character’s most salient traits. His easy, unpretentious writing style not only adds to the stories’ accessibility and resonance but also supplies the solid amalgam between plot and character, resulting in a collection to be held up as evidence that the short story not only endures but also flourishes. --Brad Hooper

About this edition

• Publisher: Autumn House Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1932870652
• ISBN 13: 9781932870657
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192