Donald Secreast Books
This author explores small-town life and the industrial heritage of the American South through evocative short stories and poetry. His works often center on ordinary people grappling with the challenges of work and family, rendering their inner lives with profound understanding and empathy. Secreast's style is direct and imagistic, frequently drawing on specific places and experiences to craft universally resonant narratives. His writing offers a penetrating look into the American landscape and the human condition.
The Solar-Powered Southern Belle: Short stories
- 206 pages
- 8 hours of reading
The Solar-Powered Southern Belle consists of eight stories, which deal with the aspirations of eight characters who find themselves not fully equipped, by traditional measurements, to achieve a completely balanced life. Consequently, they must struggle with which parts of their lives they must sacrifice in order to find the satisfying equilibrium they seek. These stories represent author’s continuing exploration of how people who have not been born with any economic or social advantages pursue whatever paths they can find to spiritual or psychological fulfillment.Donald Secreast is the author of two collections of short stories, The Rat Becomes Light and White Trash, Red Velvet, published by HarperCollins in 1990 and 1993. He earned a Ph.D. at the University of Iowa and he taught fiction writing and American Literature at Radford University.