<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"A baby is born with gills. Foxes raise and then lose a human child. A man, in the final throes of his deathbed fever-dream, experiences a cross-Antarctic voyage. The stories in Furthest South, the second story collection from renowned writer Ethan Rutherford, find characters in the most unexpectedly menacing of circumstances, in which their sanity, happiness, and safety are put to the test. Formally ambitious, with an eye toward the strange, with a inimitable style all Rutherford's own, each story is nonetheless firmly grounded by a deep, human concern: the anxiety of family connection and humanity"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A baby is born with gills. Foxes raise and then lose a human child. A man, in the final throes of his deathbed fever-dream, experiences a cross-Antarctic voyage. The stories in <i>Farthest South</i>, the second story collection from renowned writer Ethan Rutherford, find characters in the most unexpectedly menacing of circumstances, in which their sanity, happiness, and safety are put to the test. Formally ambitious, with an eye toward the strange, with an inimitable style all Rutherford's own, each story is nonetheless firmly grounded by a deep, human concern: the anxiety of family connection and humanity.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Ethan Rutherford is one of our great artists of catastrophe. Drawing on landscapes both mythic--the fairytale, the ghost story--and domestic, this collection illuminates terrors that feel at once prescient and eternal. <em>Farthest South</em> is a masterpiece." <b>--Laura van den Berg, author of <em>I Hold a Wolf by the Ears</em> and <em>The Third Hotel</em></b> <p/>"Again and again you can feel the stories in <em>Farthest South</em> striking out after fascination and surprising themselves with wisdom. Ethan Rutherford pairs a classic style with a haunted vision. Narratives that are all grace and ease at the beginning gradually become soaked in dread and hallucination. Reading them is by equal measures comforting and jolting, like sinking into a warm bath and feeling the brush of something living against your body." <b>--Kevin Brockmeier, author of <em>A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip</em> and <em>The Illumination</em></b> <p/>"Ethan Rutherford's stories combine nail-biting tension with crystalline description, humor, and endings that are as marvelously strange as they are rewarding. Toggling between the eerie and the radiantly familiar, <em>Farthest South</em> is unsettling in all the best ways. This is a beautifully spellbinding book." <b>--Julie Schumacher, author of <em>Dear Committee Members</em> and <em>The Shakespeare Requirement</em></b> <p/>On <em>The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories</em>"Rutherford's wildly inventive collection is nothing short of a revelation. From polar expeditions to family turmoil, no experience is beyond this very fine writer's ambitious grasp. He gives us the world with each story, with the world's full measure of heartbreak and hilarity." <b>--Ben Fountain, National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of <em>Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk</em></b> <p/>"Ethan Rutherford's stories are funny and wrenching and feature hapless fatalists who nonetheless never stop striving, whose motto might be It's Not Too Late to Take Responsibility for What We're Doing, even as they continue to squander such opportunities. And yet they never let us forget that there's always the possibility that they will learn-even if it's the hard way-to see beyond themselves." <b>--Jim Shepard, author of National Book Award finalist <em>Like You'd Understand Anyway</em></b> <p/>"Ethan Rutherford's stories are absolutely perfect. . . I rarely feel this close to heartbreak, this strengthened by a writer clearly doing something special." <b>--Kevin Wilson, author of <em>The Family Fang</em></b></p> <p> "Ethan Rutherford's <i>Farthest South</i> is a spooky, sweet, wondrous short story collection.Rutherford's stories possess undeniable darkness, and his collection maintains suspense throughout...There's variety in the subject matter, but also in style, while occasional black-and-white illustrations add to the enjoyment. " <b> -- <i>Foreword Reviews</i> </b> </p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Ethan Rutherford's fiction has appeared in <i>BOMB, Tin House, Ploughshares, One Story, American Short Fiction, Post Road, Esopus, Conjunctions</i>, and <i>The Best American Short Stories</i>. His first book, <i>The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories</i>, was a finalist for the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, a finalist for the John Leonard Award, received honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and was the winner of a Minnesota Book Award. Born in Seattle, Washington, he received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota and now teaches Creative Writing at Trinity College. He lives in Hartford, Connecticut with his wife and two sons.</p>
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