Lithuania: Short Stories

The author of Eelgrass and The Kentucky Stories offers a new collection of "mysterious and beautiful" (Lee Smith) stories, "as subtle, syntactically graceful, and beautiful as any I've seen" (Toby Olson). The stories in Lithuania are set in such diverse places as Tunisia, Quebec, and Baltimore and "conjures up quirky, gritty characters and surrounds them with evocative swatches of local color" (Publisher's Weekly).

Author: Joseph Ashby Porter
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 12/19/1990
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.58w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9780801840920

About the Author

Joe Ashby Porter is the author of Eelgrass and The Kentucky Stories. Porter is associate professor of English at Duke University and has served as visiting fiction writer at Brown University. His works on Renaissance literature, published under the name Joseph A. Porter, include Shakespeare's Mercutio: His History and Drama.