{"product_id":"telling-the-map-christopher-rowe-9781618731326","title":"Telling the Map: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are ten stories here including one readers have waited ten long years for: in new novel-la \u003ci\u003eThe Border State\u003c\/i\u003e Rowe revisits the world of his much-lauded story \u003ci\u003eThe Voluntary State\u003c\/i\u003e. Competitive cyclists twins Michael and Maggie have trained all their lives to race internationally. One thing holds them back: their mother who years before crossed the border ... into Tennessee.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Christopher Rowe: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rowe's stories are the kind of thing you want on a cold, winter's night when the fire starts burning low. Terrific.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Justina Robson (\u003ci\u003eGlorious Angels\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As good as he is now, he'll keep getting better. Read these excellent stories, and see what I mean.\"--Jack Womack (\u003ci\u003eGoing, Going, Gone\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rowe's work might remind you of that of Andy Duncan. Both exemplify an archetypically Southern viewpoint on life's mysteries, a worldview that admits marvels in the most common of circumstances and narrates those unreal intrusions in a kind of downhome manner that belies real sophistication.\"-- \u003ci\u003eAsimov's\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As smooth and heady as good Kentucky bourbon.\"-- \u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Rowe\u003c\/b\u003e's stories have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon awards, frequently reprinted, translated into a half-dozen languages, praised by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and long listed in the \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. He holds an MFA from the Bluegrass Writer's Studio. Rowe and his wife Gwenda Bond co-write the Supernormal Sleuthing Series for children, and reside in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Rowe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1618731327\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781618731326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Small Beer Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/29\/2017","brand":"Christopher Rowe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939256041727,"sku":"9781618731326","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_240e180a-233d-494f-9315-aebf30ba2277.jpg?v=1681440424","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/telling-the-map-christopher-rowe-9781618731326","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}