Stories in the Key of C. Minor. - Softcover

Bittner, Russell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0578037092 ISBN 13: 9780578037097

Publisher: Faraway Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

Six stories, all of which start within a five-mile radius of 350 5th Avenue, the address of the Empire State Building, the original "Ground Zero." With this first book of five short stories and one novella, Russell Bittner believes that worlds can be discovered and described in a dewdrop, in a teardrop, in a leaky faucet-and that all that's required is a good magnifying glass, keen powers of observation, and a feel for how language might be made to form a picture in the reader's mind. NYC-fugheddaboud Brooklyn-is home to scoundrels and angels, derelicts and daredevils, high flyers, low flyers and every kind of flyer for every kind of service one human being is able to coerce, cheat, beggar or beat out of another. Russell captures that here in the key of C Minor-the key of melancholy.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

This is Russell's first collection of short stories (plus one novella), all of which have been published multiple times either on the page or on the 'Net.  It contains one Pushcart Prize nomination ("In the Animal Kingdom") and one publication by St. Martin's Griffon Press ("Waltzing Matilda" appeared in the anthology Next Stop Hollywood:  Stories Bound for the Screen, edited by Steve Cohen).
Next Stop Hollywood is also available here at Amazon in a print edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faraway Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0578037092
• ISBN 13: 9780578037097
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 134