The Least You Need to Know: Stories - Hardcover
Selected by Amy Bloom as the winner of the 1995 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction
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Winner of the 1995 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction selected by Amy Bloom!
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"[Lee Martin's] own distinctive voice has the qualities of his favorite setting: the commonplace and middle-class turned over with a searchlight of want and need to know. Morticians and insurance men, salesmen and farmers; women hoping to make life more beautiful and less pressing with delicate, bewildering hobbies and necessary flirtations; boys who veer from shame to pride, from decency to irredeemable wrongs, in an afternoon; people who do not quite recover, during the time of our acquaintance, but do give up gracefully."-from the Foreword by Amy Bloom
Lee Martin earned his B.A. from Eastern Illinois University, his M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas, and his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His stories have been widely published in journals including The Georgia Review, Story, DoubleTake, New England Review, Yankee, Prairie Schooner, and GlimmerTrain Stories. He received a Nebraska Arts Council Master Award Individual Artist Fellowship in Fiction (1995), as well as Individual Artist Fellowships in Fiction from the Ohio Arts Council (1987) and the Tennessee Arts Commission (1989).
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- PublisherSarabande Books
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0964115123
- ISBN 13 9780964115125
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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The Least You Need to Know: Stories
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Sarabande Books, Louisville, KY
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ISBN 13: 9780964115125
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. "The Least You Need to Know," Lee Martin's first collection of stories, investigates crime scenes, infidelities, farm foreclosures, funeral homes, and suicides as sites for profoundly human interactions. Lyrical and clean, these stories explore the carpentry of love as we see sons and fathers, husbands and wives "measure the braces and joists of their hearts" (from "Secrets"). Winner of the 1995 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction / Selected by Amy Bloom. Seller Inventory # 6972
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