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A selection of Barnes and Noble's Discover Great New Writers program—now in a new edition from Harcourt
Winner of ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award, receiving the Gold Seal in Literary Fiction.
Told with the compression and force of a poem, The Vanishing Moon is a novel of desire, unyielding necessity, and the people and places that inevitably disappear from our lives. Opening against the backdrop of the Great Depression, Coulson leads us on a heart-wrenching journey across two generations of an extraordinary midwestern family. This first novel offers us a chorus of candid and poignant voices reminiscent of Sherwood Anderson and Carson McCullers.
Hear Joseph Coulson on the Leonard Lopate Show - WNYC.org
The Vanishing Moon...explores human frailty with the simplicity and directness of haiku...at times achieves the quiet beauty of William Maxwell's finest work—generous, episodic, elegiac but not sentimental...Coulson seems to want to bring Faulkner to Ohio.
"—The Nation