Soon: Stories (Story River Books), by Pam Durban
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Pam Durban's new collection of stories explores the myriad ways people lose, find, and hold on to one another. When all else fails her characters--science, religion, family, self--the powerful act of storytelling itself keeps their broken lives together and fosters hope. Each story in this rewarding and multifaceted collection introduces people who yearn for better lives and find themselves entangled in the hopes and dreams that heal and bind us all. The title story in Soon--chosen by John Updike for The Best American Short Stories of the Century anthology--follows two generations of a family whose lives are driven by the "patient and brutal need that people called hope, which . . . formed from your present life a future where you would be healed or loved." In "The Jap Room," winner of the 2008 Goodheart Prize, a woman tries to help her husband, a World War II veteran, finally come home. "Rowing to Darien" introduces a famous English actress as she rows away from her husband's rice plantation. In "Hush" a gravely ill man encounters himself in the darkness of Kentucky's iconic Mammoth Cave. An adopted child waits for his mother to come back for him in "Birth Mother," and, in "Forward, Elsewhere, Out," a mother must come to terms with her adolescent son's sexuality. The stories in this collection deftly broach universal themes of love, loss, and the redemptive power of storytelling. Durban's writing has been praised for its depth and mastery of characterization, its ability to persuade readers that the lives of the people in her stories are true, that their troubles and pleasures are real enough to matter. The nuanced and artfully rendered cast in this collection wrestles with the big questions that face us all--Why are we here? How are we to live? What matters most? The thirteen stories in Soon have appeared in earlier forms in Atlanta Magazine, Indiana Review, Georgia Review, Carolina Quarterly, Idaho Review, Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Five Points, High Five: An Anthology of Fiction from 10 Years of Five Points, New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, Best American Short Stories, and Best American Short Stories of the Century. The collection includes a foreword from novelist and short story writer Mary Hood, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Prize, Townsend Prize, and Lillian Smith Award.
Soon: Stories (Story River Books), by Pam Durban- Amazon Sales Rank: #1558262 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.70" h x .60" w x 6.30" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 136 pages
Review "The stories in this collection deftly broach the universal themes of love, loss, and the redemptive power of storytelling."--Dew on the Kudzu"I recommend Pam Durban's wise and gorgeously-crafted second collection of stories, 'Soon.' In each story, someone or something is clinging to something, which in most cases reduces the richness of present life.... These stories are ripe for soul-bearing discussion."--Dannye Romine Powell, Charlotte Observer"The stories in Soon all share an awareness of the fragility of life and the intricate web of past loves and memories held within. On surface the large situations are simple: death, divorce, a child's rebellion, and yet, the weaving process of all that has fed these lives is complex and beautifully represents the particles of everyday life. In elegant prose, Durban explores these moments of transition and loss with great wisdom and compassion."--Jill McCorkle"Pam Durban's Soon will add great substance to the growing awareness of her being one of America's finest writers. In this new book of short stories, her talent is on full display and I was reminded of Lorrie Moore, Ann Patchett, and Ron Rash. I would call Durban first-rate but I believe that she is far, far better than that."--Pat Conroy"Pam Durban writes with such deep and abiding empathy that we never doubt her characters' voices, thoughts, or hearts, whether in the pre-Civil War South or more contemporary settings. Yet what makes these stories equally unforgettable is the beauty of her language. To have this wonderful new collection Soon in print is cause for celebration."--Ron Rash
About the Author Pam Durban is the author of the novels The Laughing Place (winner of the Townsend Prize), So Far Back (winner of the Lillian Smith Award), The Tree of Forgetfulness, and the short story collection All Set About with Fever Trees. Her short fiction has been published in Georgia Review, Tri-Quarterly, Southern Review, Shenandoah, Crazyhorse, Epoch, New Virginia Review, Ohio Review, and elsewhere. Durban has received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a Whiting Writer's Award as well as a James Michener Creative Writing Fellowship from the University of Iowa. With former Georgia poet laureate David Bottoms, she is founding coeditor of Five Points literary magazine. A native of Aiken, South Carolina, she is the Doris Betts Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel HillMary Hood is the author of the novel Familiar Heat and two short story collections, How Far She Went (winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and the Southern Review/LSU Short Fiction Award) and And Venus Is Blue (winner of the Lillian Smith Award, the Townsend Prize for Fiction, and the Dixie Council of Authors and Journalists Author of the Year Award). Hood's work has also been honored with the Whiting Writers' Award, the Robert Penn Warren Award, and a Pushcart Prize. A 2014 inductee into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, Hood lives and writes in Commerce, Georgia.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Brilliant stories from a fantastic author! By womenswrites I have read some truly amazing books this year and this book just soared away over the top of them all. From the first page, I was captivated by the writing style, the combination of forthrightness and an eerie sense of placidity, like a sailboat's wake on a mirror-like sea. And then came the characters, so unusual and yet so recognizable, with stories so common and yet so riveting in the capable hands of this brilliant author. I can't believe Durban is not a household name or at least a huge bestseller. She should be. This book is a treasure.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. She is such a good writer that you can't see her craft By claire ford fullerton I was in complete awe of Pam Durban's command of language as I read this collection of short stories. They are so much more than short stories; they are vignettes of life written with bold plausibility, and each story is written through the scrim of glaring insight and discretely delivered compassion. We not only come to know her characters, we understand how they came to find themselves in their predicaments, and I can honestly say I reveled in each one. To read "Soon" is to receive high education in the art of short story writing. Because it seems contradictory to say Ms. Durban is both lyrical and economic of word, I'll say instead that she is summarily a seamless spell-weaver. She is such a good writer that you can't see her craft. I'll be re-reading "Soon" and proudly displaying it in my library. It is a treasure, and I'll be recommending it to my friends.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Makes you think. By Skeeter Some stories I had to read twice just to understand what was really happening to the characters.
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