Lithuania: Short Stories

by Joe Ashby Porter

Book Overview

The author of Eelgrass and The Kentucky Stories offers a new collection of mysterious and beautiful (Lee Smith) stories, as subtle, syntactically graceful, and beautiful as any I've seen (Toby Olson). The stories in Lithuania are set in such diverse places as Tunisia, Quebec, and Baltimore and conjures up quirky, gritty characters and surrounds them with evocative swatches of local color (Publisher's Weekly).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801840929
• ISBN13: 9780801840920
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Interesting short stories having nothing to do with Lithuani

I ordered this book thinking its short stories would be about Lithuania by a visitor, perhaps. Instead, the stories, while quite well written, are about the author's experiences in Baltimore, where some Lithuanians happen to cross paths, peripherally, with the author, and about his interactions with Arabs, here and in Africa -- which stories have a decided (I think) homosexual bent. Readers hoping for a travelogue about Lithuania are sure to be disappointed, if not annoyed, and might well ask for a refund.