Falling Free: Stories (ISF) - Hardcover

Targan, Barry

 
9780252016455: Falling Free: Stories (ISF)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0252016459 ISBN 13: 9780252016455
Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1989

Synopsis

Six stories deal with wartime, guidelines for living, bankruptcy, an artist, and a bullfight

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Reviews

These six vivid stories, Targan's third collection ( Surviving Adverse Seasons ), are full of realistic detail about different places and activities: a brash 15-year-old vendor's impressions of Atlantic City as boot camp during WW II, a bankrupt Jewish businessman battling a fundamentalist sect for his son's mind, fathers and sons on a skiing holiday, a famous woman painter recalling an early love, a middle-aged drifter out West deciding to settle down. The stories contain an inordinate amount of philosophizing, unsuccessfully disguised as the ruminations of characters who have reached a critical point in their lives. In the least successful tale, the resolution comes mostly through intellection and overheated prose, but when the metaphors and the actions come together perfectly, Gargan's verbal excesses are forgivable because he shares with the reader his enthusiastic interest in how life is lived. (Aug.
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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Publication date
1989
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0252016459
ISBN 13 
9780252016455
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
121