
Fair Augusto
FAIR AUGUSTO AND OTHER STORIES, Laura Kalpakian’s first collection of short fiction shows remarkable breadth and depth. The settings, moods, themes and characters who inhabit these stories display enviable artistic range. “Hunters in the Fields of August” follows the fates and fortunes of a family of Italian Jews fleeing Mussolini. “Veteran’s Day” (winner of the Stand International Short Fiction Competition) chronicles a disturbed veteran’s return to his hometown. The title piece explores a lost lover whose suicide reverberates across lives and continents. Winner of the Pen West Best Short Fiction, 1987, these are stories to savor.
“This fine collection of short fiction is filled with rich depictions of human frailty and resilience, and characters who must relinquish their passionate attachments–whether it be to a marriage or a memory.” MS MAGAZINE
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About Laura
Laura Kalpakian was nominated for the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for American Cookery. She won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award (twice), the Anahid Award for an American writer of Armenian descent, the PEN West Award, and the Stand International Short Fiction Competition. She has had residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Montalvo Center for the Arts, and Hawthornden Castle in Scotland. She is the author of sixteen novels, and four collections, and over a hundred stories published in collections, anthologies, literary journals and magazines in the USA and the UK.
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