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Averill, Thomas Fox was born on April 30, 1949 in Berkeley, California, United States. Son of Stuart Carson and Elizabeth (Walter) Averill.
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Falling under the spell of these short stories by O. Henry Award–winning author Thomas Fox Averill, a reader might well wonder: What in the world is ordinary? If there really are “just plain folks” anywhere at all, they’d surely be in the solid Midwestern Kansas of Averill’s fiction. And yet the “ordinary” people we meet in these stories lead us into one startling encounter after another with the mystery, the magic, and, yes, the transcendence that even the most mundane life secretly holds. In writing that has been called “lyrical” (New York Times), “compelling” (Kansas City Star), and “voluptuous” (Booklist), Averill explores the relationship between fathers and sons, the dead and the living, the natural and the unnatural. With crystalline clarity he reveals the ordinary and the extraordinary genius of a place, a time, a solitary soul embedded in the minutiae of the everyday: a young boy hunting for a runaway horse; a couple ostracized in their small town; a grieving high school basketball star; a child with a voice purer than a tuning fork; a gay son seeking his father’s acceptance; two boys playing bocce with the parish priest for high stakes—the secret of their birth. If there is magic in love, in acceptance, in sorrow and solace in all the usual places, then these stories find that magic with ordinary genius.
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(Though it's not quite the motherland, Glasglow, Kansas, m...)
Though it's not quite the motherland, Glasglow, Kansas, makes a fine home for Scotsman Rob MacPherson and his son Ewan. As the elder MacPherson blows up whisky stills in his attempts to make a single-malt Scotch, Ewan falls in love-at twelve years of age-with Shirley Porter. There's no turning back for Ewan. From that moment on, his heart has set its course. Through adolescence and into adulthood, through becoming a high school teacher, bagpipe instructor, loyal son, and keeper of all Scottish traditions, Ewan has found his one true passion-much like his father's obsession with single malt Scotch. A passion that-through trial and error-will teach him that love is an acquired taste...
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Averill, Thomas Fox was born on April 30, 1949 in Berkeley, California, United States. Son of Stuart Carson and Elizabeth (Walter) Averill.
Bachelor, University Kansas, 1971. Master of Arts, University Kansas, 1974. Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, 1976.
Averill is a writer-in-residence and professor of English at Topeka"s Washburn University. Well known as a writer and teacher, Averill has published numerous works of fiction, short stories, and stories on his native Kansas and society at large.
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Radio commentator Station KANU, Lawrence, since 1991. Fellow Center for Kansas Studies. Member Associated Writing Programs.
Married Jeffrey Ann Goudie, January 31, 1974. Children: Eleanor Goudie-Averill, Alexander Goudie-Averill.