{"product_id":"choices-three-novellas-paperback","title":"Choices: Three Novellas - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnnabel Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Annabel Thomas with her heartfelt, supremely wise, and often funny trio of novellas here is my new favorite writer, and I expect it will be a while before anyone comes along to take her place.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnnabel Thomas was born in Columbus, Ohio, and graduated from The Ohio State University. She worked as a reporter and feature writer for The Columbus Citizen, a morning newspaper. She also taught grade school and for many years helped her husband, a veterinarian, treat large and small animals. She has four children. Her parents were born and raised in the Appalachian \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMountains of Southeast Ohio, and she returned there each summer so that the mountains and the people had a strong influence on her writing. \"Probably because the hill country exists for me largely in their remembrances,\" she says, \"it has turned, in my brain, into myth and symbol, the stuff of which my poems and stories are made. I believe the pull of different cultures resulted in a sort of double vision, a feeling of standing outside my own times, looking on from a distance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI feel this tension at the heart of my fiction.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Phototropic Woman, her first story collection, won the Iowa School of Letters Short Fiction Award in 1981 and was published by University of Iowa Press. A second volume of short fiction, Knucklebones, won the Willa Cather Award in 1994 and was published in 1995 by Helicon Nine Editions in Kansas City, MO. Two novels, Blood Feud (1998) and Stone Man Mountain (2002) were published by University of Tennessee Press. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51773813227808,"sku":"9781947504332","price":24.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f5746d4eeadcd98f20c655f57f139d20_e6b26b13-dcb3-459d-84c5-4f78b807b1f1.webp?v=1780433485","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/choices-three-novellas-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}