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Title: Big Bend
Publisher: Athens: University of Georgia Press
Publication Date: 2001
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0820322830
ISBN 13: 9780820322834
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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The winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, this intriguing anthology of stories explores the complex twists and turns of human relationships in such works as "Fog," "Thanksgiving," and the title story, about a grieving widower, feeling the onslaught of age, who finds himself attracted to a young birdwatcher no older than his daughter.

About the Author

Bill Roorbach is the author of a number of books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels Life among the Giants and The Smallest Color, the romantic memoir Summers with Juliet, the essay collection Into Woods, and Maine Prize nonfiction winner Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey. The tenth anniversary edition of his craft book, Writing Life Stories, is used in writing programs around the world. His short fiction has been published in Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, and dozens of other magazines, journals, and websites. He lives in western Maine.

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