Cars Go Fast (Many Voices Project)

John Chattin

ISBN 10: 0898232341 / ISBN 13: 9780898232349

Published by New Rivers Press October 2007, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cars Go Fast (Many Voices Project)
• Publisher: New Rivers Press October 2007
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0898232341
• ISBN 13: 9780898232349
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: USED Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • LITERATURE & Fiction

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Synopsis

"Written with deceptive simplicity and easy grace, this is, in its own way, a Book of Revelations, each story fulfilled with an inevitability that both surprises and illuminates."—Joseph Caldwell (Under The Dog Star. The Uncle From Rome. In Such Dark Places.)

"Cars Go Fast. And faster. And faster. It's a grand metaphor. Hold on tight. Chattin's characters hurtle along the back roads and side streets of life. Sometimes they skid to a stop in unlit parking lots or dead-end alleys. Sometimes the hairpin curves are just too tight, the speed too high, and all traction lost. In the finely crafted world John Chattin creates in these pages, both the heartbreaking near misses and the glorious crashes are riveting and beautiful. Go along for the ride. You won't regret it."—Steven Sherrill (The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break. Visits From The Drowned Girl.)

The dozen stories in Cars Go Fast confront the hard, yet brittle, edges of life when hopes become oppressed by work, or family, or addiction. Whether the characters are in the south, southwest, or pacific northwest, they hunker into cars and head out of town, book flights and hit the skies, or leave by drink or drugs or acts of violence, heeding an instinct for flight, searching for an end to uncertainty, fear, and anger, but even more, seeking a glimmer of what life could be, with only enough time, only enough conviction.

John Chattin was born in Seattle and spent his youth in Louisville, KY. He earned a MFA in creative writing from The New School and a BA in journalism from Western Kentucky University. His work has appeared in The Baltimore Review; Bayou; Bellevue Literary Review; The Powhatan Review; Rio Grande Review; The Saint Ann's Review; Tulane Review; and UNo MAS.

About the Author

John Chattin was born in Seattle and spent his youth in Louisville, KY. He earned a MFA in creative writing from The New School and a BA in journalism from Western Kentucky University. His work has appeared in The Baltimore Review; Bayou; Bellevue Literary Review; The Powhatan Review; Rio Grande Review; The Saint Ann's Review; Tulane Review; and UNo MAS.