Furnace Creek by Joseph Boone
Winner, First Novel, Next Generation Indie Awards (2023)Winner, Honorable Mention in General Fiction, Eric Hoffer Awards (2023)
Winner, Foreward's Indie Book of the Year in LGBTQ+ Fiction (2023)
Editor's Pick, Publishers Weekly (December 5, 2022)
This moving novel teases us with the question of what Dickens' Pip might have been like if he had grown up in the American South of the 1960s and 1970s and faced the explosive social issues that galvanized the world in those decades: racial injustice, a war abroad, women's and gay rights, class struggle. A guilty encounter with an escaped felon, a summer spent working for an eccentric man with a mysterious past, conflicted erotic feelings for his employer's niece and nephew―these events set the stage for a journey of sexual and moral discovery that takes Newt Seward to New England, Rome, and Paris―all before returning home to confront his life's many expectations and surprises. Furnace Creek effortlessly combines elements of coming-of-age story, novel of erotic discovery, Southern Gothic fiction, and detection-mystery plot. Written with a natural storyteller's gift of imagination, it leaps the frame of Dickens' masterpiece to capture the emotional intensity of characters whose lives will haunt the reader beyond the page.
Joseph Allen Boone is the author of three nonfiction books and the script for a musical based on Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man. His short story collection, Conditions of Precarity, will be published by Eyewear soon. FURNACE CREEK (Black Springs Press, 2021) was the only novel shortlisted for the 2019 worldwide Beverly Prize, among other accolades. The Guggenheim Foundation, National Humanities Center, Stanford Humanities Center, Rockefeller-Bellagio Center, Bogliasco Foundation, American Council for Learned Societies, and the Huntington Library have all awarded Boone fellowships and residencies. Boone is an endowed professor of English at the University of Southern California and a resident of Los Angeles, California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781913606350 |
| ISBN 10 | 191360635X |
| Title | Furnace Creek |
| Author | Joseph Boone |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Eyewear Publishing |
| Year published | 2022-02-21 |
| Number of pages | 485 |
| Prizes | Commended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (LGBTQ+ Fiction) 2022 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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