The Fast Red Road
2000 novel by Stephen Graham Jones
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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]
 First Edition Cover | |
| Author | Stephen Graham Jones |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Polly Kanevsky |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Fiction Collective 2 |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| Pages | 326 pp |
| Followed by | All 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
The novel won the following awards: Independent Publisher's Award for Multicultural Fiction[3]