Melissa Yancy

Dog Years (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

WINNER OF THE 2016 DRUE HEINZ LITERATURE PRIZE Winner of the 2017 California Book Awards, first fiction category Melissa Yancy's personal experience in the milieus of hospitals, medicine, and family services infuse her narratives with a rare texture and gravity. Keenly observant, offering both sharp humor and humanity, these stories explore the ties that bindboth genetic and otherwiseand the fine line between the mundane and the maudlin. Whether the men or women that populate these pages are contending with illness, death, or parenthood, the real focus is on time and our inability to slow its progression, reminding us to revel in those moments we can control.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822982319
• Artikelnr.: 47110296

Autorenporträt

Melissa Yancy's short fiction has appeared in One Story, Glimmer Train, Zyzzyva, and other publications. She is the recipient of a 2016 NEA Literature Fellowship. Stories from Dog Years have won the Glimmer Train Fiction Open, The Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize, and received special mention in the Pushcart Prize. Yancy lives in Los Angeles where she works as a fundraiser for healthcare causes.