8vo hardcover. Photographic covers. No jacket. A few scratches on covers. Slight corner bumps. No other signs of wear. Author signature on title page.

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Title: Blood Kin & Other Strangers
Publisher: Headline Books, Inc.
Publication Date: 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 092991578X
ISBN 13: 9780929915784
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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2009 Indie Book Award Finalist for Best Short Story Fiction

Award Winning Finalist National Best Book Awards 2008, USA Book News
Award Winning Stories and Poems from Appalachia

In Blood Kin and Other Strangers Patsy Evans Pittman explores that most intimate of mysteries, the family. Drawn from her Appalachian heritage, these short stories and poems of love and loss, revenge and redemption, deceit and murder are among today's best.

This carefully crafted collection features stark drama, gentle humor and surprise endings; and characters who will take you on a journey you won't soon forget.

About the Author

Patsy Evans Pittman s stories and poems were first published in a children s weekly while she was still in elementary school. Her next publication, however, did not occur until many years later, after a thirty-year career with GMAC.
Since then, her short stories and poems, many of which are included in this collection, have been published in FIRST for Women, Woman s World and Grit, among others, as well as in several anthologies. Her non-fiction has appeared in Guideposts Books, Cup of Comfort, Ideals, Country Woman, and others. She has won numerous awards from Writers Digest, West Virginia Writers, Midwest Writers, Alabama Writers Conclave and Barbour County Workshop, and received a 2007 Fellowship in Literature from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
Mrs. Pittman and her husband Stanley live in Vienna, West Virginia, within a few miles of her birthplace. Between them, they have six children and fourteen grandchildren.

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