Description
The Stone Carver is a collection of 14 short stories from North Carolina writer and poet, Julia Nunnally Duncan. Her first collection of stories, Blue Ridge Shadows was published by Iris Press in 2002. Both collections have received critical acclaim. The stories are set in the Blue Ridge Mountains in north-western North Carolina.
Praise for The Stone Carver
Julia Nunnally Duncan’s The Stone Carver possesses that amalgamation of astonishing dexterity, ferocious imagination, and decorous understatement on hears in the bluegrass masters. The intensity of ordinary suffering is drawn here with precision and courage.
—David Huddle
The Stone Carver is a wonderful collection of stories. Duncan has the talent and empathy to make seemingly ordinary people extraordinary as she probes beneath the quiet surfaces of her characters’ lives to reveal the profoundest machinations of the human heart.
—Ron Rash
Julia Nunnally Duncan explores the symbiotic relationship between passion and loneliness in this haunting, compelling collection of short stories. Shaped by the author’s nuanced imagination and unique Southern voice, The Stone Carver is an extraordinary achievement, which stays with you long after you put it down.
—Gwyn Rubio
Suffused with music and crafted with the author’s clear poetic language, Julia Nunnally Duncan’s stories are of vulnerable, loving people, sometimes lost, sometimes miraculously found, and sometimes able to find themselves. Her characters have a largeness of spirit that does not fail them even when they falter and miss their mark. They will break your heart with their yearnings and their own compassion, touching you as few fictional creations do.
—Isabel Zuber
