Bibliograph

A natural history of hell, stories, Jeffrey Ford

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A natural history of hell, stories, Jeffrey Ford

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A natural history of hell

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Jeffrey Ford

Sub title

stories

Summary

Emily Dickinson takes a carriage ride with Death. A couple are invited over to a neighbor's daughter's exorcism. A country witch with a sea-captain's head in a glass globe intercedes on behalf of abused and abandoned children. In July of 1915, in Hardin County, Ohio, a boy sees ghosts. Explore contemporary natural history in a baker's dozen of exhilarating visions. Jeffrey Ford was born on Long Island in New York State in 1955 and grew up in the town of West Islip. He studied fiction writing with John Gardner at S. U. N. Y Binghamton. He's been a college English teacher of writing and literature for thirty years. He is the author of eight novels including The Girl in the Glass and four short story collections. He has received the World Fantasy, Nebula, Edgar, and Shirley Jackson awards. He lives with his wife Lynn in a century old farm house in a land of slow clouds and endless fields

Target audience

adult

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