{"product_id":"long-story-short-flash-fiction-by-sixty-five-of-north-carolinas-finest-writers-paperback","title":"Long Story Short: Flash Fiction by Sixty-five of North Carolina's Finest Writers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarianne Gingher\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis extraordinary collection gathers short-short stories--none longer than 1,800 words--by some of North Carolina's best contemporary writers, including Doris Betts, Orson Scott Card, Fred Chappell, Sarah Dessen, Haven Kimmel, Robert Morgan, Lee Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, and Daniel Wallace. The stories are compulsively readable. The spellbinding elements of brevity, variety, and surprise conspire to keep readers flipping pages. Comic, tragic, magical, fantastical, provocative, disturbing, luminous, the short-short form proves a reliably elastic and dazzling medium for every writer featured.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn one flash of literary artistry after another, these sixty-five established and emerging writers remind us why we read fiction: to laugh, to learn, to feel, to be discomfited and challenged, to be transported, and to make enlightening and enduring connections with the world outside our own skins. \u003ci\u003eLong Story Short\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to legions of fans who already delight in reading many of the North Carolina authors included here and will introduce them to extraordinary writers they have not yet discovered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors: \u003cbr\u003eMax Steele\u003cbr\u003eAnthony S. Abbott\u003cbr\u003eDaphne Athas\u003cbr\u003eRussell Banks\u003cbr\u003eWilton Barnhardt\u003cbr\u003eDoris Betts\u003cbr\u003eWill Blythe\u003cbr\u003eWendy Brenner\u003cbr\u003eAmy Knox Brown\u003cbr\u003eBekah Brunstetter\u003cbr\u003eOrson Scott Card\u003cbr\u003eFred Chappell\u003cbr\u003eKelly Cherry\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Cox\u003cbr\u003eQuinn Dalton\u003cbr\u003eAngela Davis-Gardner\u003cbr\u003eSarah Dessen\u003cbr\u003ePamela Duncan\u003cbr\u003ePam Durban\u003cbr\u003eClyde Edgerton\u003cbr\u003eTracie Fellers\u003cbr\u003eBen Fountain\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Gerard\u003cbr\u003eMarianne Gingher\u003cbr\u003eGail Godwin\u003cbr\u003eJim Grimsley\u003cbr\u003eVirginia Holman\u003cbr\u003eRandall Kenan\u003cbr\u003eJohn Kessel\u003cbr\u003eHaven Kimmel\u003cbr\u003eCarrie Knowles\u003cbr\u003eTelisha Moore Leigg\u003cbr\u003ePeter Makuck\u003cbr\u003eMichael Malone\u003cbr\u003eDoug Marlette\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Maron\u003cbr\u003eJill McCorkle\u003cbr\u003ePhilip McFee\u003cbr\u003eJohn McNally\u003cbr\u003eHeather Ross Miller\u003cbr\u003eLydia Millet\u003cbr\u003eKatherine Min\u003cbr\u003eCourtney Jones Mitchell\u003cbr\u003eRuth Moose\u003cbr\u003eRobert Morgan\u003cbr\u003eShelia Moses\u003cbr\u003eLawrence Naumoff\u003cbr\u003eJenny Offill\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Oliver\u003cbr\u003eMichael Parker\u003cbr\u003ePeggy Payne\u003cbr\u003eJoe Ashby Porter\u003cbr\u003eDenise Rickman\u003cbr\u003eDavid Rowell\u003cbr\u003eJohn Rowell\u003cbr\u003eDeborah Seabrooke\u003cbr\u003eDave Shaw\u003cbr\u003eBland Simpson\u003cbr\u003eLee Smith\u003cbr\u003eJune Spence\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Spencer\u003cbr\u003eMelanie Sumner\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Wallace\u003cbr\u003eLuke Whisnant\u003cbr\u003eLynn York\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis extraordinary collection gathers short-short stories--none longer than 1,800 words--by some of North Carolina's best contemporary writers, including Russell Banks, Doris Betts, Orson Scott Card, Fred Chappell, Sarah Dessen, Haven Kimmel, Robert Morgan, Lee Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, and Daniel Wallace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 8.4 x 5.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753001156896,"sku":"9780807859773","price":29.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bbbefc4357cf28fd0c9557faa51f4a83.webp?v=1780009807","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/long-story-short-flash-fiction-by-sixty-five-of-north-carolinas-finest-writers-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}