Search results for ""Author Joe Ashby Porter""
Turtle Point Press The Near Future
Book SynopsisAshby Porter creates a world of flowering sadness, Spanish Moss and trailer parks. It is a tale of love ruined under the burning Florida sun amid phantasmagorical settings where present and future, life and death, love and aggression become entangled. The Near Future is a little jewel of a book, a very funny novel about getting - among other things - old, and in Florida, and with less than one's entire dignity in tact. Porter's comic imagination is of the truly droll sort, he homes very closely upon the truth. - Richard FordTrade Review"The Near Future is a jewel of a book, a very funny novel about getting - among other things - old, and in Florida, and with less than one's entire dignity in tact. Porter's comic imagination of the truly droll sort, and with it he homes very closely in upon the truth." - Richard Ford "In The Near Future, Joe Ashby Porter has created a little world of flowering sadness rooted in a terrain of early bird specials, Spanish Moss and trailer parks. A world of love among the ruined under the burning Florida sun. This is a wonderful book by an artist who conjures wonders from the ordinary." - Frederic Tuten "Porter's unforgettable lovers traverse an archipelago of phantasmagoric settings where present and future, life and death, love and aggression become as entangled as mangrove roots. Porter is a master of dialogue and the reality of the voices gives his characters such intensity and pathos that you wish for each of them...the impossible happy ending." - Emily Grocholz"
£13.49
Turtle Point Press All Aboard: Short Stories
Book SynopsisVentures into new, sometimes unprecedented, territory - from the luxe restraint of Merrymount through the stops-out eroticism of Pending and the distilled heebie-jeebies of Dream On. Here, reading, travel and sexual orientation (and disorientation) loom larger than before in Porter and the dialogue gives new play for what Harry Mathews has called Porter's golden ear'.'
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Turtle Point Press Touch Wood
Book SynopsisPulitzer 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. WhiteTrade 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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