Nothing Like an Ocean: Stories

Jim Tomlinson's previous book of short stories, Things Kept, Things Left Behind, won the prestigious Iowa Short Fiction Award and received enthusiastic reviews. The New York Times compared the strong sense of place in Tomlinson's writing to that found in the works of Flannery O'Connor and Alice Munro. The stories in his new collection, Nothing Like An Ocean, also reflect Tomlinson's awareness of place, revisiting the fictional town of Spivey, a community in rural Appalachia wh

Author: Jim Tomlinson
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 03/06/2009
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.50w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780813125404

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/15/2009 pg. 42

About the Author

Jim Tomlinson's first book, Things Kept, Things Left Behind, received the 2006 Iowa Short Fiction Award, and its title story appeared in New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2008. His work has been short-listed for inclusion in Best American Short Stories, 2007 and Best American Mystery Stories, 2007, and he has received grants from the Kentucky Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

This title is not returnable