The Montana Stories
David Long author Judy Blunt editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:UEA Publishing Project
Published:30th Oct '26
£15.99
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A superb collection of short stories, covering the lives and struggles of Montanans throughout the 20th century.
A superb collection of short stories set in Montana taken from David Long's five decades as a writer, covering the lives and struggles of Montanans throughout the 20th century.
The Montana Stories collects David Long's best stories set in Montana from across his career, from "The Flood of '64" to "Pie Social," written for this book. It superbly demonstrates his unique talent for getting inside his characters in a manner that illuminates but never exploits, that reveals their secrets while guarding their dignity. His prose is meticulous but never so muted that the reader is not astonished in each story by a phrase or observation that rings like a well-aimed strike of an axe.
David Long has a special talent for pulling taut the narrative thread. In these pages, we have the satisfaction of encountering a remarkable voice.
-- Louise ErdrichLong writes like a man who never hurries. Every word is perfect. Every scene is necessary. Each moment has its exact image, its particular emotional tenor.
-- Sandra Scofield * Boston Globe *David Long's stories are so good, go so deep, they often seem mythic. Like Faulkner, he gives us a world which illuminates our lives.
* The Short Story Review *These are hard stories, stories of poverty and loss, with death never far from the page. But David Long in his understated voice pays such careful attention to the details of impoverished lives in the rural West that every story is suffused with the dignity and compassion such lives deserve. This is a darkly beautiful collection from a master craftsman, a writer who--much like the people he writes about--has always deserved more attention than he's gotten.
-- Molly Gloss, award-winning author of The Jump-Off Creek and The Hearts of HoISBN: 9781915812933
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 17mm
Weight: 300g
316 pages