Good and Balanced: Stories about Sports from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

by Ethan Laughman (Editor), Robert Abel (Contribution by), Gail Galloway Adams (Contribution by), Tony Ardizzone (Contribution by), Francois Camoin (Contribution by)

Overview

Set on the field of play, or maybe just its memory, these stories of the sporting life range beyond the expected to include such pursuits as yoga, billiards, horse racing, cards, and boxing. Here, even iconic sports like football, basketball, and baseball get a fresh take through stories that might feature a losing coach, a woman hoopster, or a groundskeeper (rather than a star player). Whether front-and-center as a story's driving force or as a backdrop for other concerns, the skill, cunning, and aggression on display here are familiar to all of us—as players, willing or not, in all manner of contests.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780820357652
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Publication date:	03/01/2020
Series:	Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Series , #113
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

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.