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Three Versions of the Truth by Amy Knox Brown
If history is the version of events that people have decided to agree upon, what happens to the alternative versions, the lost facts, the unacknowledged motives? In her compelling collection, Three Versions of the Truth, award-winning author Amy Knox Brown explores history’s impact on the lives of modern-day Midwesterners. These seventeen stories zero in on the place where truth and desire collide and examine characters who are forced to make hard choices about the stories they tell themselves, the things they can live with
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Amy Knox Brown is a native of Lincoln, Nebraska. She received a Ph.D. in English/ Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska—where she studied with former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser—as well as a J.D. from Nebraska's College of Law. In December 2006, she was granted an MFA from North Carolina State University. She is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and English at Salem College and director of the creative writing major.
Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Shenandoah, Missouri Review, Nebraska Review, Other Voices, and many other literary magazines, as well as anthologies published by William Morrow, University of Wisconsin Press, and Backwaters Press. Past awards include the Mari Sandoz/Prairie Schooner Prize for Fiction, the Brenda Smart Prize for Short-Short Fiction (judged by Lee Smith), the Brenda Smart Prize for Fiction (judged by Shannon Ravenel), and a Henfield Award. Amy Knox Brown currently lives in Winston-Salem, NC, with her husband and fellow writer, John McNally, and their three dogs and two cats.
PRAISE FOR THREE VERSIONS OF THE TRUTH
As its title suggests, the duplicitous nature of relationships-with lovers, family, friends, but most importantly, with one's own inner demons-is explored in all its tangled perplexity in Brown's vibrant debut collection of short stories set in her native Nebraska. As level on the page as the quintessential Great Plains landscape, Brown nonetheless reveals the dramatic peaks and valleys hidden within the interior terrain of her striking cast of everyday characters. From the college professor whose career takes a nosedive only to be saved by the publication of an ersatz self-help book in "Dr. Faustus in Lincoln" to the young woman contemplating the loss of a girlhood friendship in "Why We Are the Way We Are," Brown's protagonists are a preternaturally introspective lot, but their philosophical meditations make for revelatory reading. With fictional interludes of historical significance sprinkled throughout the collection like palate-cleansing dollops of sorbet, Brown serves up a savory homage to the place she calls home and to its myriad inhabitants. — BOOKLIST
The stories in Three Versions of the Truth have a sweep and range that is remarkable for a first collection--from heartbreaking historical accounts to hilarious tales contemporary manners--while at the same time they are clearly part of a singular, cohesive vision. Amy Knox Brown imbues her world with a devilish sense of humor and a deep, intelligent compassion; hers is a unique and memorable new voice that readers will treasure. - Dan Chaon, author of Among the Missing
Amy Knox Brown's wonderful story collection, Three Versions of the Truth, is cause for celebration. She is a gifted writer with an incredible range in style and subject from a lonely man coming to terms with what's missing in his life to a teenage girl witnessing all too closely her parents' breakup, and many, many others in between. Her characters are alive and compelling; each story is a satisfying world to be entered and explored. Ms. Brown's native Nebraskan landscape flourishes on these pages—descriptions you want to read slowly and then again—but so does the domestic landscape of each and every home she enters, and most importantly the emotional and psychological landscape as her characters find their way time and time again to a satisfying resolution. Amy Knox Brown is a very talented writer who blends beautiful lyrical passages with a sharp wit and great sense of humor.- Jill McCorkle, author of Carolina Moon
Amy Knox Brown’s fiction is as full of beauty and grit as the Great Plains where much of it is set. Historical figures come to life in Three Versions of the Truth—Sitting Bull, Custer, Charlie Starkweather—as do the folks living their lives outside the scope of history’s lens, those ordinary folks from the world we know, or thought we knew, before Brown turned it inside out with her sharp wit, her careful observing, and her need to know the truths of the human heart. These stories, finely crafted, are luminous. They leave us more alive than we ever dreamed we could be. - Lee Martin, author of The Bright Forever
THREE VERSIONS OF THE TRUTH
by Amy Knox Brown
Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 226 pp. Publisher: Press 53 Publication Date: Sep. 1, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-9793049-3-4
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