Stories by Jonis Agee
May 1, 1995 4.5 x 7.5 128 pages 978-1-56689-032-8
Critically acclaimed novelist Jonis Agee continues the popular Coffee-To-Go Series with stories grappling with heartbreak, anger, betrayal, and survival.
Honest, biting, and bittersweet, A .38 Special and a Broken Heart is a rich collection of stories told by critically acclaimed author Jonis Agee. Packed with emotional detail and compelling narrative force, these stories are about people who love, lose, and try again.
Persistence and strength, betrayal and forgiveness, weakness and acceptance, mercy and mystery, life and deathall find themselves played out in this collection, a part of the Coffee-To-Go Short-Short Story Series.
About the Author
Jonis Agee was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. She is Adele Hall Professor of English at The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where she teaches creative writing and twentieth-century fiction.
She is the author of several books, including the widely praised Sweet Eyes, Strange Angels, and Bend This Heart, which were named Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review. Her first story collection from Coffee House Press, Bend This Heart, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Agees awards include ForeWord Magazines Editors Choice Award for Taking the Wall and the Gold Medal in Fiction for Acts of Love on Indigo Road; a National Endowment for the Arts grant in fiction; a Loft-McKnight Award; a Loft-McKnight Award of Distinction; and two Nebraska Book Awards.