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Power Lines: and Other Stories
By Jane Bradley
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Jane Bradley's career was launched when the University of Arkansas Press published her first collection of short stories, Power Lines, in 1989. The collection, lauded at the time by the New York Times, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and others, is available again, bringing readers this writing filled with sympathy for and understanding of ordinary lives, and as the New York Times book review said at its publication, writing filled also with promise for Bradley’s future.
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Jane Bradley has received a NEA Fellowship and several other awards for her fiction. Her collection of stories Power Lines, was published by the University of Arkansas Press and listed as an Editor’s Choice in the New York Times. She is also an award winning playwright, and is currently teaching creative writing at the University of Toledo, working on various writing projects, and traveling whenever she has the chance.
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