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The Old and the Lost: Collected Stories
Glenn Blake
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Description for The Old and the Lost: Collected Stories
Paperback. The characters who inhabit Blake's haunting landscape-awash in their own worlds, adrift in their own lives-struggle to salvage what they can of their hopes and dreams from the encroaching tides. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 225 x 18. Weight in Grams: 312.
"I was born in a land of bayous, raised between rivers," Glenn Blake writes. "There is a place in Southeast Texas where two rivers meet and become one. There is a long bridge over these waters, and as you drive across, you can look to the south and see where the Old River and the Lost River become the Old and the Lost. You can look out as far as you can see and watch this wide water become the bay." These fourteen stories are set in the swamps, bayous, and sloughs of Southeast Texas, a region that is ... Read more
"I was born in a land of bayous, raised between rivers," Glenn Blake writes. "There is a place in Southeast Texas where two rivers meet and become one. There is a long bridge over these waters, and as you drive across, you can look to the south and see where the Old River and the Lost River become the Old and the Lost. You can look out as far as you can see and watch this wide water become the bay." These fourteen stories are set in the swamps, bayous, and sloughs of Southeast Texas, a region that is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Series
Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421421032
SKU
V9781421421032
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About Glenn Blake
Glenn Blake has taught at Rice University, the University of Houston, and Johns Hopkins University. A senior editor at Boulevard magazine, he is the author of Drowned Moon and Return Fire. His short stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, Boulevard, Southwest Review, The Hopkins Review, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere.
Reviews for The Old and the Lost: Collected Stories
When he writes about it, you can feel it, smell it, taste it, hear it, see it, that strange, lost, unknown corner of Texas. It is a whole other country and Blake gives it to you with all its oddity and mystery, as it is.
Molly Ivins Reticent, closely guarded, and cryptic, Glenn Blake's terse prose partakes of poetry's ... Read more
Molly Ivins Reticent, closely guarded, and cryptic, Glenn Blake's terse prose partakes of poetry's ... Read more