num_pages: 160
description: In these ten stories, Mark Richard, winner of the 1990 PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award, emerges as the heir apparent to Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, and William Faulkner.
title: The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories
titlecomplete: The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories
genres: American, Anthologies, Short Stories, Southern Gothic, Short Story Collection, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1027
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
publisher: Anchor Books