From the Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest

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From the Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest
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First edition
Author Mitch Cullin
Illustrator Peter I. Chang
PublisherDufour Editions
Publication date
November 2001
ISBN 978-0-8023-1336-2
OCLC 46565102
813/.54 21
LC Class PS3553.U319 F76 2001
Preceded by The Cosmology of Bing 2001 
Followed by UnderSurface 2002 

From the Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest is a short-story collection by American writer Mitch Cullin, and is the author's fifth book. It was first published as a trade paperback in November 2001 by Dufour Editions in the US. [1] A UK trade paperback edition was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in January 2005. [2] In 2007, the Italian publisher FBE released a trade paperback translation of the collection as Da Quel Luogo Nella Valle Dentro La Foresta. [3]

The collection was given a starred review from Booklist in its December 12, 2001 publication. [4]

Contents

Several of the stories in the collection had been published previously in literary magazines, although they were greatly revised for the book and often given new titles. Three of the eight stories were previously unpublished. The stories are listed below in the order in which they appear in the book.

TitlePreviously published in [5] Year Written
Voice of the Sun The Bayou Review and Texas Writers Newsletter 1995 / 1997
From the Place in the Valley Deep in the ForestPreviously unpublished2001
History is DeadPreviously unpublished2001
Wormwoodfinalist in the Santa Barbara Review's Phenomena of Place contest1997
Five Women in No Particular Order Austin Flux 1995
Viv's BidingPreviously unpublished2001
Sifting Through Austin Flux and Little, Brown's Best American Gay Fiction 2 1996
Totem Harrington's Gay Men's Quarterly 1999

Footnotes

  1. "Dufour Editions". Archived from the original on 2012-09-10. Retrieved 2008-07-26.
  2. "Weidenfeld & Nicolson". Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2008-07-26.
  3. "FBE edition". Archived from the original on 2012-09-09. Retrieved 2008-07-26.
  4. "Booklist starred review". Archived from the original on 2008-10-12. Retrieved 2008-07-26.
  5. Cullin, Mitch (2001). "Publishers notes, English edition". From the Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest . Dufour Editions. ISBN   978-0-8023-1336-2.


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