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Pulitzer Prize-nominee Joe Ashby Porter has created a new collection of innovative short stories which range across the US and Europe and acknowledge the sway of chance and contingency in our lives. Porter's stories fuse fact and unlikelyhood, reality and the uncanny. They are irresistibly readable - Richard Wilbur One of the most consistently rewarding writers in the US and among the most intelligently exciting - Stephen Dixon It's his humanity that astonishes me - E. White

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"An American original" - John Hawkes; "Joe Ashby Porter's stories fuse fact and unlikelihood, reality and the uncanny. They are irresistibly readable." - Richard Wilbur; "one of the most consistently rewarding writers in the United States and among the most intelligently exciting." - Stephen Dixon

Touch Wood

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    A Paperback / softback by Joe Ashby Porter

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      Publisher: Turtle Point Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/04/2000
      ISBN13: 9781885586643, 978-1885586643
      ISBN10: 1885586647

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Pulitzer Prize-nominee Joe Ashby Porter has created a new collection of innovative short stories which range across the US and Europe and acknowledge the sway of chance and contingency in our lives. Porter's stories fuse fact and unlikelyhood, reality and the uncanny. They are irresistibly readable - Richard Wilbur One of the most consistently rewarding writers in the US and among the most intelligently exciting - Stephen Dixon It's his humanity that astonishes me - E. White

      Trade Review
      "An American original" - John Hawkes; "Joe Ashby Porter's stories fuse fact and unlikelihood, reality and the uncanny. They are irresistibly readable." - Richard Wilbur; "one of the most consistently rewarding writers in the United States and among the most intelligently exciting." - Stephen Dixon

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