ISBN: 0-88739-386-1
168 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 12/2002
Paperback Original
Price: $15.95
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Badlands
Doug Rennie
Edgy, wildly diverse, sometimes bizarre - and often flatout creepy - the stories in Badlands shove the reader face first into the minds and souls of characters facing frightening moments in their lives. Not the usual generic workshop stories; indeed, many are like no other stories you have read - dark and disturning, filled with ambiguity, wholly original. Stories that reflect British novelist and short story writer Graham Swift's definition of good storytelling as "the relating of something strange."
Review: "In Badlands, Doug Rennie maps a world we're bound to recognize. It's our own. Pain, fear, desire, hope, ambivalence. They're all here - and that occasional breakthrough, that now-and-then illummination, for good or ill."
-Jack Smith, Editor, Green Hills Literary Lantern
"Badlands marks Doug Rennie as a writer to watch. The shorter pieces map put moments with lyrical exactitude, while the best of the longer stories are gripping accounts of people in grave danger. Readers bound up by his words will acknowledge the awful ambivalence of life and applaud Rennie for taking us to the dark places and getting us out alive."
-Alan Davis, editor of American Fiction and author of Alone with the Owl of the Spirit
"Doug Rennie packs a whole lot of character, atmosphere and beauty into relatively short pieces! All of his stories have bite - some of them sting!"
-Sherry Decker, Editor, Ingenious Fition
Bio: DOUG RENNIE, a Portland, Oregon writer whose essays and stories have appeared in nearly 100 periodicals, literary journals and anthologies, is also a marathon runner, bicyclist and traveler. Badlands is his first published collection. He is currently working on a novel, One Cool Cat.
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