Heathens; A Novel

Haynes, David

ISBN 10: 0898231663 / ISBN 13: 9780898231663

Published by New Rivers, Minneapolis, 1987

About this Item

One of 6000 copies bound in the publisher's original cloth covered boards, spine and cover stamped in gilt.

Seller Inventory # 9023557

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Heathens; A Novel
• Publisher: New Rivers, Minneapolis
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0898231663
• ISBN 13: 9780898231663
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Book

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Synopsis

Fiction. While LaDonna does a stint in the Shakopee Women's Detention Center and creates a line of cosmetics from her cell, Marcus pines away for her while caring for their teenage son and dodging his mother's attempts at finding him another woman.

About the Author

David Haynes earned a B.A. in literature from Macalester College, Minnesota, in 1977 and an M.A. from Hamline University, Minnesota, in 1989. A former fifth and sixth grade teacher, he served as a teacher in residence at the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Haynes also served on the leadership team at the experimental Saturn School of Tomorrow. His book Right by My Side (New Rivers Press, 1993) was a winner in the 1992 Minnesota Voices Project and was selected by the American Library Association as one of 1994's best books for young adults. Two of Haynes's stories have been recorded for the National Public Radio series "Selected Shorts." In 1996 Granta magazine named Haynes as one of the best young American novelists. Haynes is currently an associate professor and the director of creative writing at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He teaches regularly in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and has taught in the MFA programs at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Hamline University, and at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD, and at the Writers' Garret in Dallas. His teaching interests include gender, class, race, and generational differences—all themes that he explores in great depth in A STAR IN THE FACE OF THE SKY.