Bloodshot Stories - Softcover

Jones, Jeff P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1944977236 ISBN 13: 9781944977238

Publisher: Sunshot Press, 2018

Synopsis

FIRST PLACE — 2017 SUNSHOT BOOK AWARD FOR PROSE

LONGLISTED — 2019 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection

"You want it darker? Jeff P. Jones carries on in the trajectory that runs from Kafka through Philip K. Dick to Cormac McCarthy (with a sprinkling of John Barth thrown in). Whether inviting the reader to comb through the dank stacks of a Stalin archive, or sweat inside the soldered-closed cab of a post-apocalyptic dump truck, or become an atom splitting from the inside, or a single brain dispersing into the universe—these brilliantly researched and deeply imagined stories are never the expected. A stunning collection." — Janet Burroway, author of Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (ninth edition)

"...the prose is beautiful, and there are no missteps in this powerful and impressive collection." — Ron Hansen, author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

"...fantastic narratives that defy chronology and plant us firmly in a state of wonder." — Kim Barnes, author of In the Kingdom of Men

"Jeff P. Jones writes with passion and wonderful intelligence...Bloodshot is a brilliant collection." — Margot Livesey, author of Mercury and The Flight of Gemma Hardy

• 212 Pages
• 13 Short Stories
• Cover Art by Martin Wittfooth

About this title

About the Author

Jeff P. Jones was born in Denver, and is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Denver, the University of Washington, and the University of Idaho. He lives on the Palouse in northern Idaho. He's a MacDowell Fellow, a Bread Loaf Fellow in Fiction (2018), and his writing has won a Pushcart Prize, as well as the Hackney, Meridian Editors', A. David Schwartz, Wabash, and Lamar York prizes. His debut novel, Love Give Us One Death, won the George Garrett Fiction Prize in 2016, and his handbook, Writing for the Reader: Practice in Prose Craft, is now available on Kindle and as a paperback. Bloodshot Stories is his first published story collection.

Review

Jeff P. Jones discovers the compelling themes of his Bloodshot Stories in wildly various locations, but always on the dark side. We read about a zombie on the high plains, the wide-ranging effects of an atomic explosion, a researcher examining Stalin's early life to find his origins as a serial killer, a dying atheist's grim final letter to his daughter, an old woman recalling her life while holding her pulsing heart in her hand. The subjects are mysterious and morbid but the prose is beautiful, and there are no missteps in this powerful and impressive collection.

-- Ron Hansen, author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

About this edition

• Publisher: Sunshot Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1944977236
• ISBN 13: 9781944977238
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 212