{"product_id":"allegheny-front-paperback-1","title":"Allegheny Front - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew Neill Null\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLydia Millet\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the author's homeland of West Virginia, this panoramic collection of stories traces the people and animals who live in precarious balance in the mountains of Appalachia over a span of two hundred years, in a disappearing rural world. With omniscient narration, rich detail, and lyrical prose, Matthew Neill Null brings his landscape and characters vividly to life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAllegheny Front \u003c\/i\u003ehas few sentimental trappings. . . . Men's stubbornness is a rock face, in these intelligent and unpretentious stories, their anger a crown fire, their occasional tenderness a rill. . . . It remains at a distance from judgment, at a remove from easy definitions, unspooling a lucid and often painful history of appetite, exploitation, and bereavement.\"--Lydia Millet, from the introduction\u003cp\u003e\"Rich in history, speech, incident, flora, fauna, vernacular, geology, politics--Matthew Neill Null's work is dazzling. . . . If anything ever happened in the state of West Virginia, Null knows the long and short of it, and will make its story sing.\"--Salvatore Scibona\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew Neill Null \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eHoney from the Lion \u003c\/i\u003e(Lookout Books). A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, winner of the PEN\/O. Henry Award and the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, his short fiction has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eMississippi Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Short Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEcotone\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He divides his time between West Virginia and Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he coordinates the writing fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew Neill Null is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eHoney from the Lion\u003c\/i\u003e. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a winner of the PEN\/O. Henry Award, he now coordinates the writing fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He divides his time between Massachusetts and West Virginia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLydia Millet is an American novelist. Her third novel, \u003ci\u003eMy Happy Life\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2003 PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, and she has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 10, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47248805822713,"sku":"9781941411254","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/cldaTVQ1eUJzck5lMWVTbncxd05GUT09_7a83d005-a7f9-44c6-9b81-78341074bf47.webp?v=1768641019","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/allegheny-front-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}