Pam Durban
Forfatter af So Far Back: A Novel
Om forfatteren
Pam Durban is the author of The Laughing Place and All Set About With Fever Trees. She has received numerous awards including a Whiting Writer's Award. She teaches at Georgia State University, where she is one of the founding editors of Five Points Magazine. (Bowker Author Biography)
Værker af Pam Durban
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Associated Works
Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South (2005) — Bidragyder — 47 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1947-03-04
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Bopæl
- Aiken, South Carolina, USA
Atlanta, Georgia, USA - Erhverv
- editor
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- James Michener Fellowship (1982-1983)
Rinehart Award (Fiction ∙ 1984)
Whiting Writers' Award (1987)
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (Creative Writing, 1998)
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- 171
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- #124,899
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- 3.9
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- ISBN
- 15
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- 1
As we move from narrator to narrator, back and forth in time, we see how difficult the idea of “truth” can be. One of the men involved, Howard Aimar, claims: “They all knew how murky things could get when what really happened got so tangled up with what should have happened, it was hard to tell them apart, especially when a man mistook what he’d meant to do for what he’d actually done.” The advantage of using several viewpoints is that we get different pieces of the story from each person – and they don’t always mesh.
Durban, in creating people who are not monsters yet who do monstrous things, gives us something to think about. As one of the character tries to understand: “Maybe she wants to piece this story back together, to make it as whole and true as it can be, because she believes that stories can act as antidotes to amnesia and complacency; that telling stories is one way to remember what we’re capable of doing to one another.”… (mere)