BALLSY

by Perry Glasser

Overview

Sharp characterizations and compelling stories will pull a reader into these dramatic novellas by prize-winning author Perry Glasser in which three contemporary women meet the challenges in their lives. Doralee Jackson has run off to Mexico with the wrong man; Jody Phillips is coming of age and seeks to discover if her mother's death when Jody was three was an accident or a suicide brought on by her father's infidelity; Raylene and her two children are on the run from her abusive boyfriend when she falls in with an ageing professor who is going blind. They seem to have little chance, but in every case they make the most of what they do have without compromise or abandoning independence.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013078239
Publisher:	Perry Glasser Publishing
Publication date:	09/02/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	149 KB

About the Author

Perry is the author of RIVERTON NOIR, a novel that received the Gival Press Novel Award in 2011. DANGEROUS PLACES, a collection of his short fiction received the 2008 G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize from BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. In 2009 the book was named the recipient of the National “Best Books 2009” Award—Fiction & Literature: Short Story Fiction by USA Book News. Two novellas were featured in NEXT STOP HOLLYWOOD, a collection of fiction from St. Martin’s Press in 2007. He has also published two prior collections of short fiction, SUSPICIOUS ORIGINS (St. Paul: New Rivers Press) and SINGING ON THE TITANIC (Urbana and Chicago: The University of Illinois Press), a book recorded by the Library of Congress for the blind. His work has twice been read on National Public Radio's “The Sound of Writing” and has three times won P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Awards. He has been named at fellow at The Norman Mailer House, Ucross, Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, was a scholar at Bread Loaf, and in consecutive years was named a winner of the annual Boston Fiction Festival prize. His memoir, “Iowa Black Dirt,” about being a single parent, won First Prize in a contest sponsored by The Good Men Foundation, and appears in that anthology (November, 2009). His story, “I-95, Southbound” in 2009 received First Prize in the Gival Press Short Story Award contest and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His memoir, “Excelsior” won an award from Memoir (and) in 2010. Perry has been a Contributing Editor of North American Review since 1994.