The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong is a novel by Native American writer Stephen Graham Jones. It was his debut novel, published in 2000.[1]

The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong
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AuthorStephen Graham Jones
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LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherFiction Collective 2
Publication date
2000
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages326 pp
Followed byAll The Beautiful Sinners 

The novel was originally titled Golius: A Failed Sestina and used as Stephen's dissertation while attending Florida State University. Jones started writing the book after his dissertation director introduced him to Houghton-Mifflin editor Jane Silver at a conference. Jones pitched Silver an idea for a book, lying about having already written it. Silver expressed interest in working on the book and asked to see it; Jones started writing it later that day. [2]

Awards and nominations

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The novel won the following awards: Independent Publisher's Award for Multicultural Fiction[3]

References

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  1. ^ "The Fast Red Road". University of Alabama Press. Retrieved 2024-05-31.
  2. ^ "Interview with Stephen Graham Jones by Amy Patterson".
  3. ^ IndependentPublisher.com
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