ISBN 978-1-929490-30-1
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192 pages
5 5/8 x 8 1/4"
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Dancing by the River
by Marlin Barton
Marlin Barton’s Dancing by the River
is a superb collection of stories about the fascinating complexities of
life in a small community. Winner of the O. Henry Award and the Andrew Lytle
Prize, Barton has been called “one of the most distinctive new voices in
Southern fiction,” and this book, which entails the whole history of the
community, proves that he is a masterful observer of family relations and
the idiosyncratic logic that governs human lives. His writing does not call
attention to itself—it
is simple, powerful, and so fluid that it seems almost effortless.
A companion volume to The Dry Well, Marlin Barton’s
first collection of stories, the stories of Dancing by the River
stand on their own, and prove that this is a book that is a gift for every
reader ready to discover a vibrant sensibility fully engaged with the South.
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Marlin Barton and his wife, Rhonda, live in Montgomery, Alabama, where he is assistant director of the “Writing Our Stories” project for juvenile offenders. A graduate of the University of Alabama and Wichita State University, he was awarded the Individual Artist Fellowship for Literature from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and received the Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook award for the best first volume of short stories. He also has published a novel (A Broken Thing) and another collection of stories (The Dry Well). |
Also see two articles by Elizabeth Glixman:
"Interview with Marlin Barton: Contemporary
Reflections from the South," in Electica; and a review of
Dancing by the River in
The Pedestal Magazine.com.
"Marlin Barton . . . may win the blue
ribbon for being the author whose critics and reviewers most often invoke
the ghost of Faulkner" (Anita Garner, in First Draft, the journal of
the Alabama Writers' Forum).