A Place of Light (Picas series)

Mary Bucci Bush

$9.95

Publication Date: January 1st, 2006

Publisher:

Guernica Editions Inc

ISBN:

9781550712193

Pages:

244

Description

Impeccably crafted and sensitively written, this collection of short stories is built around the outstanding yet ordinary individuals and rural working class eccentrics of the author’s native upstate New York. Gritty, raw, and real, these depictions of the hardworking poor reveal the secret burdens of their everyday lives. At the core of these wide-ranging narratives are moments of surprise and illumination that stun the thoughtful characters and force them to face the unknown.

About the Author

Mary Bucci Bush is a professor of English and Creative Writing at California State University–Los Angeles, and her work has appeared in several literary journals and anthologies including Growing Up Ethnic in America, From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana, and The Voices We Carry.