The Last Game We Played by Jo Neace Krause

Jo Neace Krause

Jo Neace Krause was born in Breathitt County in eastern Kentucky during World War II. Her family migrated to a town near Cincinnati, Ohio. She attended Ohio State University and later married John Thomas Krause, a historian, and lived in Buffalo, New York, where he was a professor at the State University of New York. Ms. Krause is an artist whose work hangs in the Kentucky Folk Art Center at Morehead, Kentucky, in various fine art galleries, and on the cover of this book. She presently lives on a farm on the Duck River in Nunnelly, Tennessee.

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The Last Game We Played

Jo Neace Krause

Release Date: August 1, 2008

ISBN: 978-0981589916

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Jo Neace Krause's incredible ear for spoken language is on full display in this collection of stories spanning many different narrators and lives, some accented with Appalachia, all conscious of the omnipresent weight of history. Krause's writing is as instinctive as breathing, whether she is relating criss-crossed family sagas or snapshots of sun-drenched afternoons. Slipping on other lives and voices as easily as clothing, The Last Game We Played is an absorbing collection from a gifted new author.

ADVANCE PRAISE

"A dark and complicated work of literature." —The Massachusetts Review

"A little classic." —Rachel Calahan, former editor of In Posse Review, on the story "The Whole World Is Watching"