{"product_id":"9781941411261","title":"Allegheny Front","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAllegheny Front \u003c\/i\u003ehas few sentimental trappings. . . . Men's stubbornness is a rock face, in these intelligent and unpretentious stories, their anger a crown fire, their occasional tenderness a rill. . . . It remains at a distance from judgment, at a remove from easy definitions, unspooling a lucid and often painful history of appetite, exploitation, and bereavement.\"—Lydia Millet, from the introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rich in history, speech, incident, flora, fauna, vernacular, geology, politics—Matthew Neill Null's work is dazzling. . . . If anything ever happened in the state of West Virginia, Null knows the long and short of it, and will make its story sing.\"—Salvatore Scibona\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the author's homeland of West Virginia, this panoramic collection of stories traces the people and animals who live in precarious balance in the mountains of Appalachia over a span of two hundred years, in a disappearing rural world. With omniscient narration, rich detail, and lyrical prose, Matthew Neill Null brings his landscape and characters vividly to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew Neill Null \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eHoney from the Lion \u003c\/i\u003e(Lookout Books). A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a winner of the PEN\/O. Henry Award, his short fiction has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eMississippi Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Short Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEcotone\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He divides his time between West Virginia and Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he coordinates the writing fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151917105392,"sku":"9781941411261","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781941411261_p0.jpg?v=1763753949","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781941411261","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}