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Sparkman in the Sky & Other Stories
Brian Griffin
出版
Sarabande Books
, 1997
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / Humorous / General
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
Fiction / War & Military
ISBN
188933006X
9781889330068
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=w3q8auxT5C4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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"Brian Griffin's first work of fiction,
Sparkman in the Sky
, is like Hemingway's
In Our Time
in that it can be read either as a collection of short stories or as a discontinuous novel. From story to story, themes gather meaning until in the last one they are resolved or transposed into a new key. The first-person narrator may be named Hal or Ian or Victor, but by the end all these narrators have fused into a collective exemplar of how things go in a certain place in our time. . . . It's no knock on Brian Griffin to say that he has learned from Hemingway, among others. After all, Miles Davis was no less gifted a musician, no less original, for having learned from Dizzy Gillespie. And Griffin has his own original qualities, his own subtleties, his own sly humor-even a gift for farce. . . . This book is way beyond promising."-
The New York Times Book Review
Brian Griffin
grew up in the country near Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee, in a family he describes as "infested by preachers, all Southern Baptists of the fundamentalist sort." He earned his B.A. in English from Middle Tennessee State University and his M.F.A. from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Griffin teaches creative writing at the University of Tennessee. He lives with his wife and children in Knoxville and works closely with a group there to promote interracial harmony in the inner city. Griffin's stories and poems have been well published in journals including
Shenandoah, New Delta Review, Clockwatch Review, Snake Nation Review
, and
Southern Poetry Review.
In addition to various short stories and poems, Griffin is currently at work on a novel.