The Fast Red Road

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The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong
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Author Stephen Graham Jones
Cover artistPolly Kanevsky
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
Publisher Fiction Collective 2
Publication date
2000
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages326 pp
Followed by All The Beautiful Sinners  

The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong is a novel by Native American writer Stephen Graham Jones. It was his debut novel, published in 2000. [1]

Contents

The novel was originally titled Golius: A Failed Sestina and used as Stephen's dissertation while attending Florida State University. Jones started writing the book after his dissertation director introduced him to Houghton-Mifflin editor Jane Silver at a conference. Jones pitched Silver an idea for a book, lying about having already written it. Silver expressed interest in working on the book and asked to see it; Jones started writing it later that day. [2]

Awards and nominations

The novel won the following awards: Independent Publisher's Award for Multicultural Fiction [3]

References

  1. "The Fast Red Road". University of Alabama Press. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
  2. "Interview with Stephen Graham Jones by Amy Patterson".
  3. IndependentPublisher.com