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About the Book

The stories in Drowned Moon are set in Southeast Texas, where the Old and the Lost Rivers meet and empty into the bay. This unique geographic location, with its unpredictable waters, its sinking swamps, its bayous and sloughs, provides a haunting landscape for Glenn Blake's characters-Jessie in "Old River," searching for stability in the aftermath of a hurricane; Hannah in "Open Season," trying to save her doves from an unusual birthday gift; or Drew in "Chocolate Bay," raising his son in a house on a peninsula, isolated from the rest of town. Blake's stories proclaim the lives of those who "find themselves awash in their own worlds, adrift in their own lives-people who salvage what they can of their hopes and dreams from the encroaching tides."

About the Author :
Glenn Blake teaches creative writing in the English Department at Rice University. He was awarded "Special Mention" for the Pushcart Prize in 1997 and received the PEN Southwest Award for fiction. He has published stories in American Short Fiction, Southwest Review, Grand Street, and other literary magazines.

Review :
"With deceptively spare prose, Glenn Blake has packed considerable depth, mystery, and sense of place into this debut collection of short stories." -- Si Dunn, Dallas Morning News " With deceptively spare prose, Glenn Blake has packed considerable depth, mystery, and sense of place into this debut collection of short stories." -- Si Dunn, Dallas Morning News "Blake's prose story-telling style is deceptively simple. He writes in a straightforward manner that belies the complexities of the human experience he is at the same time subtly presenting to his reader." -- Jere Real, Richmond Times-Dispatch "Glenn Blake's stories are ambitious, hard-edged, with much at stake. The starkness of the style is a reflection of the environs in which the stories of Drowned Moon are set..Drowned Moon is a dark, foreboding book -- a drowned moon put into print..Each of these stories is tight, finely beveled and curt, eerie. The weight of what is not said is crushing, broods like the hot and damp petrochemical air..In Drowned Moon, Glenn Blake gives us a voice from a place most of us would not inhabit or visit, a place we'd avoid. Yet though we'd likely stay away from Chocolate Bay, such places aren't going away. They're fertile ground for fiction. The rules of engagement there are ancient, universal, brutal and pure." -- Eric Miles Williamson, The Southern Review "These eight stories evoke the mysteries of nature and the human heart and the intersection between the two." -- Fritz Lanham, Houston Chronicle "Blake's prose story-telling style is deceptively simple. He writes in a straightforward manner that belies the complexities of the human experience he is at the same time subtly presenting to his reader." -- Jere Real, Richmond Times-Dispatch "Glenn Blake's stories are ambitious, hard-edged, with much at stake. The starkness of the style is a reflection of the environs in which the stories of Drowned Moon are set..Drowned Moon is a dark, foreboding book -- a drowned moon put into print..Each of these stories is tight, finely beveled and curt, eerie. The weight of what is not said is crushing, broods like the hot and damp petrochemical air..In Drowned Moon, Glenn Blake gives us a voice from a place most of us would not inhabit or visit, a place we'd avoid. Yet though we'd likely stay away from Chocolate Bay, such places aren't going away. They're fertile ground for fiction. The rules of engagement there are ancient, universal, brutal and pure." -- Eric Miles Williamson, The Southern Review "These eight stories evoke the mysteries of nature and the human heart and the intersection between the two." -- Fritz Lanham, Houston Chronicle "With deceptively spare prose, Glenn Blake has packed considerable depth, mystery, and sense of place into this debut collection of short stories." -- Si Dunn, Dallas Morning News


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780801865497
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 310 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0801865492
  • Publisher Date: 26 Jan 2001
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
  • Width: 152 mm


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