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Joe Ashby Porter

Now grave, now twinkling with sly humor, these variously innovative stories that range across the U.S. from Key West to Alaska and about the Mediterranean in Tunisia, Spain, and southern France received a starred Kirkus Review.

“Joe Ashby Porter is one of the most consistently rewarding writers in the United States, and also among the most intelligently exciting.”
—Stephen Dixon

“Joe Ashby Porter's stories are irresistibly readable.”
—Richard Wilbur

5 x 7 1/4, 200 pages, Paperback, $15.95, ISBN 1-885586-64-7

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About the Author

Winner of the 2004 Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Joe Ashby Porter, a Shakespeare scholar at Duke University, is the author of the novel The Near Future, as well as two other novels, Eelgrass (1977) and Resident Aliens (2000).

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