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Andrea Barrett (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Andrea Barrett published four moderately successful novels before Ship Fever and Other Stories catapulted her to fame. Since then her ambitious historical novel The Voyage of the Narwhal was published to very good reviews in 1998, although it has not received the critical attention her collection of stories did.

Achievements

In 1992, Andrea Barrett won a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, using the time that award provided to write the stories in Ship Fever and Other Stories, which won the 1996 National...

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