It Turns Out Like This: A Novel in Stories - Softcover

Fiction. "Old 'water hermit' Stu, barely adrift in a world of two–bit marinas, bad choices, and hard times, holds this loosely–linked 'novel in stories' together, and what fine stories they are! Tough, heartbreaking, unforgettable, necessary. Chances are pretty good that you have not met anybody like these desperate characters before, and you haven't read anything like this collection, either. IT TURNS OUT LIKE THIS deserves every reader it can get, and every prize out there." —Lee Smith

Stephen Coyne is a creative writing and American Literature professor, as well as a faculty advisor for The Kiosk literary magazine at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. Coyne received his bachelor's degree from Catawba College, his master's from the University of North Carolina, and his PhD from the University of Denver. His writing has been featured in literary journals such as The New England Review, The North American Review, and Prairie Schooner. Coyne's fiction and poetry has won awards including a Roberts Writing Award, the Heartland Fiction Prize, and the Prairie Schooner Reader's Choice Award. His short story "Game" won an honorable mention in the Sports Fiction & Essay Contest 2013. When not writing or working Coyne enjoys boating on the Missouri River.