John Parras

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Works Fire on Mount Maggiore a novel Winner of the 2004 Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel awarded by the Knoxville Writer's Guild and the University of Tennessee Press. Before the Bomb Went Off a short story Poetic Prose and Imperialism: The Ideology of Form in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" literary criticism The Sad Early Days of a Famous Scuba Diver a short story Recipe for Your Mouth a poem Water Cure a prose poem Ride a short-short story V.S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River reference article on Naipaul's novel

Writing Samples Fiction Fire on Mount Maggiore Award-winning novel on Italian forest firefighters; writing acclaimed the NEA. Poetry Recipe for Your Mouth Water Cure Quick Links Fire on Mt. Maggiore at Amazon.com Burning Leaf: A Website of Contemporary Writing & Art Difficult Limbs: Prose Poems Dangerous & Driving: Stories & Poems E-mail the author

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