The Weather Stations [NOOK Book]

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The debut collection of ten short stories from Ryan Call, including stories originally published in Keyhole, The Lifted Brow, Lo-Ball, The Collagist, The Los Angeles Review, Hobart and Web Conjunctions.
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The Weather Stations

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Overview

The debut collection of ten short stories from Ryan Call, including stories originally published in Keyhole, The Lifted Brow, Lo-Ball, The Collagist, The Los Angeles Review, Hobart and Web Conjunctions.
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Editorial Reviews

D.A. Powell, author of Chronic
“When travel writer Alexander Frater wrote lovingly of his father’s fascination with weather, ‘he measured and recorded it, noting down items like precipitation, hours of sunshine and wind speed and direction,’ he might just as easily have been writing about Ryan Call. There’s so much depth and precision in this debut collection that it reads like the culmination of a life’s work. What wonderful providence for us that it’s a beginning.”
Kathryn Rantala, author of A Partial View Toward Nazareth
“You’d have to look to such masters as Norman Lock to find language so purposefully and satisfyingly well treated. Call does not pose. Scenarios that we think are fantastical are depicted in such sympathetic, bone-simple human language that they seem completely reasonable—and resonant—aspects of worlds we know.”
Matthew Derby, author of Super Flat Times
“For all its breathtaking, vividly imagined terrain and astonishing meteorological phenomena, what you’ll remember most about The Weather Stations is Ryan Call’s keen rendering of human grief and longing and the struggle to survive in a fragile world where the sky is quite literally falling.”
Robert Lopez, author of Kamby Bolongo Mean River
“There is a lot of weather in these stories—a lot of broken skies, miraculous clouds, killer storms, fantastical happenings. In thick, muscular, meticulous prose, Ryan Call provides a beautiful and troubling forecast. The people in the crumbling worlds of The Weather Stations do what they can to survive and bear witness, and we, as readers, are the better for it. Stock up on canned goods and read this book.”
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940013292765
  • Publisher: Caketrain
  • Publication date: 3/1/2011
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • File size: 636 KB

Meet the Author

Ryan Call was born on Hill Air Force Base in 1983. He has since lived in Maryland, Tennessee, Virginia, and Texas. His stories have appeared in Conjunctions, Mid-American Review, New York Tyrant, Annalemma, Sonora Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a 2011 Whiting Writers’ Award. He lives in Houston with his wife and dog.
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