Home and beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories by Morris Allen Grubbs (Editor), Grant Young (Editor), Charles E. May (Afterword), Wade Hall (Introduction)

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  • Pub. Date: July 2001
  • 400pp
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    • Pub. Date: July 2001
    • Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
    • Format: Hardcover, 400pp

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    With an introduction by Wade Hall Morris Grubbs has sifted through vintage classics, little-known gems, and stunning debuts to assemble this collection of forty stories by popular and critically acclaimed writers. In subtle and profound ways they challenge and overturn accepted stereotypes about the land their authors call home, whether by birth or by choice. Kentucky writers have produced some of the finest short stories published in the last fifty years, much of which focuses on the tension between the comforts of community and the siren-like lure of the outside world. Arranged chronologically, from Robert Penn Warren's "Blackberry Winter" to Crystal E. Wilkinson's "Humming Back Yesterday," these stories are linked by their juxtaposition of departures and returns, the familiar and the unknown, home and beyond.

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    May 20, 2001: The choice of short stories in this anthology is stunningly astute; the pithy introductions-cum-bios are consistently stellar. Together they combine to take the reader by the hand in an invigorating walk through the awesome landscape of the Kentucky short story. Unattended by such crafty editing, this stroll could easily become a strenuous, Sissyphic exercise. The artfulness of this book resides in the front-row insight it offers into humanity, far beyond the confines of the Bluegrass State, and it is most intriguing that the cloistered world of academia should have delivered such a delight as 'Home and Beyond'.