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A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes and Other Stories: And Other Stories(Lynn and Lynda Miller Southwest Fiction Series)

A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes and Other Stories: And Other Stories(Lynn and Lynda Miller Southwest Fiction Series)


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The lush and layered stories in this delightful debut stretch from the deep darkness of Carlsbad Caverns to the light of desert stars.

In Nancy J. Allen’s fierce first collection, A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes, the extraordinary emerges from the everyday. Allen’s stories are informed by the vast landscapes of New Mexico and Texas, and in them the mythic and the mundane intertwine: two neighbors burn a grandson’s letters from Vietnam in a backyard grill; a child vanishes into the maze of Albuquerque’s fabled Alvarado Hotel; a sculptor meets her younger self in the eerie stillness of a theater lobby. These are only a few of the unforgettable, mysterious moments that mark the arrival of a bold new voice in contemporary Southwest fiction.

About the Author :
Originally from Roswell, New Mexico, Nancy J. Allen is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers. Her fiction has won awards in journals including Southwest Review, StoryQuarterly, bosque, and Short Story America. A research fellow of the School of Spiritual Psychology in Santa Fe, she lives with her husband in Dallas and Taos.

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"Original, exceptional, deftly crafted. Author Nancy J. Allen is a master of the short story format." "Original, exceptional, deftly crafted. Author Nancy J. Allen is a master of the short story format." “Nancy Allen is a gorgeous writer, deft with the use of telling and power-packed poetic verbs and wise in her ability to see deep into the soul of a character and know how a single event can change them.” “Packed with raw emotional power, A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes is intelligent, at times heart-pumping, and always courageous.” “I love Nancy Allen’s masterful stories so very much, stories that seem effortless in their beauty, their power, their wisdom, and not least, their humor. Allen, with a poet’s ear and eye, gets at the essence of her characters and their landscapes. It seems to me miraculous the way the stories move through time and space, Allen gracefully driving her narratives ever forward to their surprising, their poignant, their beautiful endings.” “This superb story collection marks the debut of a rare and talented writer who should have gotten her due a long time ago. But now, finally, we have in A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes eleven gorgeous stories. Here you will find fireworks both literal and figurative, along with rocket science, gushing oil wells, good sex, mean girls, sun-splitting Mayan ruins, family, love, loss, and pretty much all the rest of the human tumble, delivered in prose that seems to crackle straight from the writer’s nerve endings onto the page. This is short fiction of the highest order.” “Nancy Allen’s stunning debut story collection, A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes, offers us characters made of the most human stuff—parents whose children break their hearts, and children whose parents fail them terribly—but the agony of it all is lifted up high with Allen’s keen insight and very artful, vivid language. If I’d written a debut collection this passionate and compassionate, I’d have been scared to write a second.” “A Nancy Allen story is a portal and an invitation to wonder. Across these eleven stories we find ourselves in the Southwest or in Crete, in a women’s prison or launched into the poetry of liquid-fuel rocketry, but with every story there is a doorway, then sometimes another, until we’re deeply moved by the mystery of personality and memory and time. A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes is a beautifully crafted and powerful debut collection!” “Nancy Allen writes like an angel.”


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780826369277
  • Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 200
  • Series Title: Lynn and Lynda Miller Southwest Fiction Series
  • Sub Title: And Other Stories
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0826369278
  • Publisher Date: 13 Jan 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 164 gr


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