A Thousand Distant Radios

Author(s): Woody Skinner

Debut Fiction

Painting modern America in saturated colors, this collection of short stories explores the passions and compulsions at the core of our national identity: those qualities that propel us forward or hold us back; that make us strangers to ourselves and others even while we pine for connection; the ways we cope with the inescapable enormity of our nation's geography. A marlin swims circles in a luminous backyard pool; a small-town surgeon broods from the Olympus of his hilltop house, watched all the while by his neighbors below; a knife salesman plies blades of mythic sharpness while crisscrossing a crazed North American landscape like a mad Paul Bunyan; a young man in rural Arkansas nestles into a satellite dish; and a grandfather's body lies in state amid Annie Oakley's last buffalo kill, General Patton's Persian rug, and countless other oddments of a legendary America. Phenomenally imaginative, skewed, and hyperbolical, these stories are honed to cut through the blur of our times.

$11.43 NZD

Stock: 0


Add to Wishlist


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780989302395
  • : Atelier26
  • : 0.276691
  • : November 2017
  • : .6 Inches X 5.5 Inches X 8.5 Inches
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Woody Skinner
  • : 200
  • : English
  • : Paperback