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Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

Leaping Up Sliding Away

by (author) Kent Thompson

Publisher
Goose Lane Editions
Initial publish date
Jan 1986
Category
Short Stories (single author), Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780864920805
    Publish Date
    Jan 1986
    List Price
    $8.95

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Description

Leaping Up Sliding Away illustrates Thompson's passion for the "postcard story" — very short stories characterized by suggestion, resonance, and openness. Stories that draw the reader in... and then leave him wondering, questioning.

About the author

Kent Thompson was born in Waukegan, Illinois, in 1936. From 1966 to 1994 he taught English and creative writing at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, serving twice as editor of The Fiddlehead. He now lives in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. He has edited three anthologies, and he has published two books of poetry, a cycling guidebook, five novels, and two story collections. "A Local Hanging," a winner in the 1981 CBC Canadian Literary Awards, appeared in A Local Hanging and Other Stories (1984).

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