Pittsburgh Stories Format:Paperback Near Water

Near Water

and one was awarded a Silver at the National Magazine Awards

Nicole divides her time between New Waterford

The stories in Making Light of Tragedy are arrogant and uncertain

a portrait of a community

Pittsburgh Stories Format:Paperback Near WaterWritten over four decades, Pittsburgh Stories, is the second in a projected four volume set of Clark Blaises selected short stories. Set largely during the forties and fifties, these nine stories, with one exception, are reminiscences about a distant Pittsburgh adolescence. The previous and inaugural collection in the series, Southern Stories, was also unified by one locale. Blaises prowess as a writer is evident from the outset. The opening story,