false 2490582 1 Publishers Weekly hailed the "wit and subtlety" in Gerald Duff's fiction as "simply satisfying as a tall cold one on a hot Gulf Coast afternoon." The Arkansas Democrat- Gazette said "Gerald Duff's dialogue is among the best being written, and his sense of the absurd is Portis-like." This new collection of short stories features "Fire Ants, " which won the Cohen Award from Ploughshares for the best work of fiction published in the magazine in the year of its appearance. In addition to winning the Cohen Award, the title story was cited in Best American Short Stories and republished in The Editors' Choice: New American Stories. 2497887 30 10 2007 Fire Ants total:1|4:1| 1 4 3 1 4 0 false false Sat May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 21:06:43 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 21:40:11 -0700 2009 There is no stopping point of advantage between the two parts of your life, the before and that which is coming. All that is is now, a little word and a narrow place where you must stand and one which crumbles off beneath your feet on both sides, of what was and what will be. You cannot reach either...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jun 15 04:59:30 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 04:59:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 29 13:38:52 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 13:38:52 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2490582