Set in a decidedly postmodern subdivision in Appalachia, Kentuckiana focuses on the lives of the Miles family, an imaginary clan invented by a real-estate developer who is authoring a report on the neighborhoods he has created.

Kentuckiana: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Payne, Johnny

Humor & Satire

TriQuarterly

Kentuckiana

United States

This darkly humorous fourth novel by Johnny Payne takes us from the blues clubs and boxing rings of Chicago to the world of Kentucky harness racing and the hedonism of South Beach. Its characters--among them the black elites of Chicago and the white working stiffs of Hooftown--live by their wits, able to outfox everyone but themselves, and all the time borne up by big hopes and big hearts.

North of Patagonia

Voice and style are tangible as air, and just as real. Readers hear "voice" in the overall sound of your story and in the thoughts and words of your characters. They sense "style" in the way you pull these currents together, creating the magnetism that unifies all the other elements of your fiction. Your voice, your style will make readers remember you and seek out your work. Contrary to popular belief, you can learn the techniques behind voice and style. You can give your characters unique voices and develop a writing style all your own. You'll learn through practical, instructive narrative; through examples as entertaining as they are informative; and through challenging exercises.

Voice & Style (Elements of Fiction Writing)

Writers' Digest Books

Chalk Lake: A Novel

When Serena returns to Kentucky from New York to be near her ill father, she re-establishes relationships with old friends and joins them in communal living in the early 1970s

Limited Editions Pr

Adrift in a limbo of rejected prospects and failed commitments, a recent law school graduate sets out on an aimless cross-country trek that ultimately will carry him into - and across - the self-devised desert he has fashioned of his life. When happenstance involves him in a chain of events that begin to spin out of control, Vic allows himself to be drawn into a strange odyssey that will bind him into a new relationships with a bizarre set of characters - an escaped convict, a female parole officer, a mysterious flea market vendor. The journey they share leads him to the enigmatic ruins of an ancient people in Baja Mexico, to becoming a hapless accessory to murder, and at last to the possibility of a long overdue awakening to his true self. Payne's writing is enriched here by the wit and perceptive insight which continue to grace his work an to stir recognition of our uniquely human capacity for endurance and rejuvenation.

Baja

OSTRACA

Poetry

Cyberwit.net

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Kentuckiana: A Novel

Kentuckiana

North of Patagonia

Voice & Style (Elements of Fiction Writing)

Chalk Lake: A Novel

Chalk Lake: A Novel

Baja

OSTRACA