How Far She Went: Stories (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)

by Mary Hood

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Mary Hood's fictional world is a world where fear, anger, longing-sometimes worse-lie just below the surface of a pleasant summer afternoon or a Sunday church service.

In "A Country Girl," for example, she creates an idyllic valley where a barefoot girl sings melodies "low and private as a lullaby" and where "you could pick up one of the little early apples from the ground and eat it right then without worrying about pesticide." But something changes this summer afternoon with the arrival at a family reunion of fair and fiery Johnny Calhoun: "everybody's kind and nobody's kin," forty...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780820340197
  • Publish Date 30 March 2011 (first published 1 October 1984)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Georgia Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 136
  • Language English