· Sam Ligon’s ‘Drift and Swerve’ is refreshing not only for its variety of style and vision, but for its singularity and its heart. Perhaps the heart of this: the heart made so very clear from story to story even in the midst of such technical prowess and unwillingness to fall in expectation. This one has it . · Drift and Swerve: Stories By Samuel Ligon (Autumn House Press) The characters in Samuel Ligon’s new short story collection, Drift and Swerve, don’t care what you think of www.doorway.ru on their luck, dissatisfied or just trying to make it, Ligon’s world is populated by people you see every day, but never notice. Samuel Ligon is the author of two novels—Among the Dead and Dreaming and Safe in Heaven Dead—and two collections of stories, Wonderland, illustrated by Stephen Knezovich, and Drift and Swerve. He's co-editor, with Kate Lebo, of Pie Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter Booze/5.
Ligon is the author of four previous books of fiction, including two novels— Among the Dead and Dreaming and Safe in Heaven Dead —and two collections of stories, Wonderland, illustrated by Stephen Knezovich, and Drift and Swerve. Ligon is co-editor, with Kate Lebo, of Pie Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter and Booze. Samuel Ligon is most recently the author of the story collection Drift and Swerve, as well as the novel Safe In Heaven www.doorway.ru stories have appeared in The Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly, New England Review, Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth, Post Road, Keyhole, Sleepingfish, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. Samuel Ligon is the author of Drift and Swerve, a collection of stories (), and Safe in Heaven Dead, a novel ().His stories have appeared in The Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly, New England Review, Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth, Post Road, Keyhole, Sleepingfish, Gulf Coast, and www.doorway.ru teaches at Eastern Washington University's Inland Northwest Center.
Drift and Swerve by Samuel Ligon | Editorial Reviews. Paperback (New Edition) $ Ship This Item — Qualifies for Free Shipping. Drift and Swerve is an extraordinary collection–fourteen feverish stories propelled by Samuel Ligon’s vigorous, perfect prose. Darkly funny and surprisingly moving, these tales of collision and escape feature unforgettable characters, like Nikki, who careens through the book’s hard America with a ferocious, incurable case of hope. Sam Ligon’s ‘Drift and Swerve’ is refreshing not only for its variety of style and vision, but for its singularity and its heart. Perhaps the heart of this: the heart made so very clear from story to story even in the midst of such technical prowess and unwillingness to fall in expectation. This one has it all.
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