Big Dark Hole: And Other Stories by Ford, Jeffrey

World Fantasy Award finalist

It sounds innocuous. The routine world of
college teaching. Evenings on a porch with your wife. And then . . . maybe it's an unexpected light in a dark
and uninhabited house, maybe it's a drainage tunnel that some poor kid
is suddenly compelled to explore. Maybe there's a monkey in the woods or
an angel that you'll need to fight if you want to gain tenure. Jeffrey Ford's stunning new collection Big Dark Hole
is about those big, dark holes that we find ourselves once in a while
and maybe, too, the big dark holes that exist inside of us.

Author: Jeffrey Ford
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Published: 07/06/2021
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781618731845

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/01/2021
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2021
Library Journal 06/18/2021 pg. 1

About the Author
Jeffrey Ford was born on Long Island in New York State in 1955 and grew up in the town of West Islip. He studied fiction writing with John Gardner at S.U.N.Y Binghamton. He's been a college English teacher of writing and literature for thirty years. He is the author of nine novels including The Girl in the Glass and five short story collections, including A Natural History of Hell. He has received multiple World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson awards as well as the Nebula and Edgar awards among others. He lives with his wife Lynn in a century old farm house in a land of slow clouds and endless fields.