From the Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest by Mitch Cullin - ISBN: 9780297829508
Paperback
Ordinary lives touched by extraordinary events, unforgettable stories unfold.

From the Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest

Deep in the Forest

  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    31 January 2005

Summary

A group of housewives smoke cigars and play cards whilst a tornado approaches a west Texas town. An Asian-American medic bicycles through the Vietnam countryside with her husband and son and returns to the spot where she once held dying soldiers. Or a young rockabilly aficionado prepares for a date in a Ukrainian village close to Chernobyl. The words of Beatles songs sung in a Cambodian work camp. Cullin’s ability is to miraculously create moments of true pathos which distill important human …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780297829508
ISBN-10:0297829505
Author:Mitch Cullin
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:31 January 2005
Weight:294g
Dimensions:215mm x 138mm x 20mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Every time he focuses on the one character who can best tell of a larger tragedy. He finds the perfect narrator… brave, highly imagined fiction writing. - THE GUARDIAN - TODD MCEWEN

Every time he focuses on the one character who can best tell of a larger tragedy. He finds the perfect narrator… brave, highly imagined fiction writing. - THE GUARDIAN - TODD MCEWEN

About The Author

Mitch Cullin

Mitch Cullin is 35 and lives in Los Angeles. His fiction has been published in various periodicals (Christopher Street, Santa Fe Literary Review etc). He has also been awarded the Stony Brook Short Fiction Award as well as various writing grants and scholarships.

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