The Arab's Ox: Stories of Morocco - Softcover

Ardizzone, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1599541203 ISBN 13: 9781599541204

Publisher: Bordighera Press, 2018

Synopsis

Fiction. An emotionally captivating and masterfully linked story collection set in Morocco's gleaming imperial cities, twisting medinas, and remote Saharan outposts, THE ARAB'S OX was awarded the Chicago Foundation for Literature Award for Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Milkweed Editions National Fiction Prize, selected by Gloria Naylor. This edition marks the 25th anniversary of the book's publication.

About this title

About the Author:

Tony Ardizzone is the author of the novels The Whale Chaser, In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu, Heart of the Order, and In the Name of the Father, as well as the short story collections Taking It Home: Stories from the Neighborhood, The Evening News and THE ARAB'S OX: STORIES OF MOROCCO (Bordighera Press, 2017). He also edited the anthology The Habit of Art: Best Stories from the Indiana University Fiction Workshop. His writing has received several awards and honors including the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Virginia Prize for Fiction, the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, the Chicago Foundation for Literature Award for Fiction sponsored by the Friends of Literature, the Bruno Arcudi Short Fiction Prize, the Lawrence Foundation Award, and two individual artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has taught at Saint Mary's Center for Learning (Chicago), Bowling Green State University, Old Dominion University, Vermont College, and Indiana University, where he was named Chancellor's Professor.

Review:

"An intriguing, beautifully crafted exploration of the human heart . . . Ardizzone writes like a poet, with a gift for capturing moments in perfect, elegant images."

--William Rodarmor, San Francisco Chronicle

"More than the sum of its parts, this collection breathes with its artistry, and more importantly through its artistry offers what the best fiction does: the felt human landscape with its terrifying heights and abysses; its oddly shaped and jarring strangeness; the awed realization on your part that, against all rhythm and reason, the artist has taken you home."

--Gloria Naylor, author of The Women of Brewster Place and Mama Day

"In weaving stories of human compassion, Ardizzone has achieved a fiction rich and textured, deserving the highest regard."

--Library Journal

"Tony Ardizzone achieves an intriguingly prismatic effect in his second collection of short fiction. . . . His willingness to penetrate Moroccan culture, rather than paint it as an exotic backdrop for expatriate adventures, makes this collection, which won the 1992 Milkweed National Fiction Prize, refreshingly original."

--New York Times Book Review

"A deeply satisfying collection of fourteen interwoven stories that chart the growing awareness of three strangers set loose in a strange land. Ardizzone mixes a sympathetic psychological acuity with the precise observations of a skilled travel writer. He has taken Henry James's international theme, dipped it in rich North African dye, perfumed it with exotic oils, and draped it in a bright djellaba."

--Boston Review

"Full of masterly writing and teeming with ordinary Moroccan life, this is travel literature of a high order."

--Chicago Tribune

About this edition

• Publisher: Bordighera Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1599541203
• ISBN 13: 9781599541204
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290