Presents eleven short stories of irrationality and madness set in the ramshackle South, lower Manhattan, and the Great Plains of nineteenth-century America
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Bell, author of the critically well-received novel Waiting for the End of the World ( LJ 9/15/85), among others, writes with razor-sharp precision of grim doings in the rural South and the seamy side of urban New York. His stories have sharply delineated characters who generally seem to be unhappy or desperate. In "Irene," for instance, a man who has settled in a forlorn Puerto Rican neighborhood of Newark watches, as an outsider, a young girl learning to survive in her own world. As observers of life, the people in these stories possess a clarity of vision that startles the reader, but the dreariness of their realities is what lingers in the mind. For serious fiction collections. Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va.
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Bell's characters have brief pasts and uncertain futures, strange private ambitions and baffling purposes - yet each one engages us and our sympathies. His stories are full of the sadness, idiosyncrasy, chaos and mystery of individual lives. This book is a powerful and compelling collection. Very slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J. Seller Inventory # 020782
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