Contents
Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto -- Little Parameters -- Old Vemish -- The Man Who Lived -- Leave My Mother Alone -- Natural as Can Be -- The Clay War -- Charity Begins -- Leaving -- In Excelsis Deo -- And Their Fathers Who Begat Them -- Tickets -- Elizabeth Lanier -- "... And Still the Heart Doth Sing"
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
1975
Series
Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction
Judge
George P. Garrett
Award Date
1975
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Place
Iowa City
Total Pages
279
ISBN
9780877450603
Abstract
This collection of fourteen stories was chosen by Professor George P. Garrett from 230 entries to receive the sixth annual $1,000 Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction. Garrett, the author of four collections of stories, lives in Maine and has also published books of poetry, literature, and film. He has successfully combined the roles of author and instructor. He most recently taught at Princeton.
About the winning book, Garrett says: "In Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, we find in wonderous plenty the full range of short story voices and possibilities. There is a bright originality casting long shadows of grand tradition. Barry Targan is a gifted artist who tells his stories with great energy and with graceful care. This is a rich and various gathering, an admirable addition to the small body of genuinely distinguished fiction made in and for our time.
"The winning book has in my judgment the best claim for its consistent excellence and maximum variety of character, setting, action, and implication within a unity of personal experience and concerns. Targan is not overtly experimental, but he is strong, solid, graceful, and often very subtle." George P. Garrett
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