A Perfect Souvenir

Stories about Travel from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

Edited by Ethan Laughman

Title Details

Pages: 264

Trim size: 5.500in x 8.500in

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Paperback

Pub Date: 09/01/2020

ISBN: 9-780-8203-5842-0

List Price: $25.95

eBook

Pub Date: 09/15/2020

ISBN: 9-780-8203-5843-7

List Price: $25.95

A Perfect Souvenir

Stories about Travel from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

Edited by Ethan Laughman

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Travel, and the exhilarating experiences it offers us, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series.

More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this anthology on childhood—and for planned anthologies on such topics as family, gender and sexuality, animals, and more.

Travel can whisk us away to craggy mountainsides and sunny coastlines or bustling cities and mysterious jungles. Travel can excite and rejuvenate or intimidate and overwhelm. These sixteen stories reflect upon our immense, intriguing world and our explorations of it, whether you choose to follow the beaten path or abandon it.

Gail Galloway Adams

Geoffrey Becker

Daniel Curley

Philip F. Deaver

Dennis Hathaway

Mary Hood

Tom Kealey

Peter LaSalle

E. J. Levy

Susan Neville

Dianne Nelson Oberhansly

Lori Ostlund

Anne Panning

Melissa Pritchard

Margot Singer

Sandra Thompson

About the Author/Editor

ETHAN LAUGHMAN is a recruitment, marketing, and communications specialist at the University of Georgia’s College of Environment and Design. Among the few who have read every Flannery O’Connor Award–winning volume, he has collaborated closely with the series’ authors in compiling these new anthologies.