About this item
Highlights
- "The Arab's Ox" was awarded the Chicago Foundation for Literature Award for Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Milkweed Editions National Fiction Prize, selected by Gloria Naylor.
- Author(s): Tony Ardizzone
- 290 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Short Stories (single author)
Description
About the Book
An emotionally captivating and masterfully linked story collection set in Morocco's gleaming imperial cities, twisting medinas, and remote Saharan outposts.Book Synopsis
"The Arab's Ox" was awarded the Chicago Foundation for Literature Award for Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Milkweed Editions National Fiction Prize, selected by Gloria Naylor. This edition marks the 25th anniversary of the book's publication.
Review Quotes
"An intriguing, beautifully crafted exploration of the human heart . . . Ardizzone writes like a poet, with a gift for capturing moments in perfect, elegant images."
--William Rodarmor, San Francisco Chronicle
"More than the sum of its parts, this collection breathes with its artistry, and more importantly through its artistry offers what the best fiction does: the felt human landscape with its terrifying heights and abysses; its oddly shaped and jarring strangeness; the awed realization on your part that, against all rhythm and reason, the artist has taken you home."
--Gloria Naylor, author of The Women of Brewster Place and Mama Day
"In weaving stories of human compassion, Ardizzone has achieved a fiction rich and textured, deserving the highest regard."
--Library Journal
"Tony Ardizzone achieves an intriguingly prismatic effect in his second collection of short fiction. . . . His willingness to penetrate Moroccan culture, rather than paint it as an exotic backdrop for expatriate adventures, makes this collection, which won the 1992 Milkweed National Fiction Prize, refreshingly original."
--New York Times Book Review
"A deeply satisfying collection of fourteen interwoven stories that chart the growing awareness of three strangers set loose in a strange land. Ardizzone mixes a sympathetic psychological acuity with the precise observations of a skilled travel writer. He has taken Henry James's international theme, dipped it in rich North African dye, perfumed it with exotic oils, and draped it in a bright djellaba."
--Boston Review
"Full of masterly writing and teeming with ordinary Moroccan life, this is travel literature of a high order."
--Chicago Tribune