Winegold: Short Stories - Hardcover

Nigg, Joe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0933573049 ISBN 13: 9780933573048

Publisher: Wayland Pr, 1985

Synopsis

Short fiction.

About this title

About the Author:

Joe Nigg is the author of The Book of Fabulous Beasts (Oxford, 1999); the award-winning Book of Gryphons; A Guide to the Imaginary Birds of the World; and Wonder Beasts: Tales and Lore of the Phoenix, the Griffin, the Unicorn and the Dragon. Winegold is his first book of fiction.

From Library Journal:

Smith, Ken. Decoys and Other Stories. Confluence Pr., dist. by Kampmann & Co. 1985. c.50p. LC 85-071132. ISBN 0-917652-53-3. $16.95; pap. ISBN 0-917652-52-5. $8.95. f Questions of identity predominate in the six tales of Nigg's new collection. In the title story, a middle-aged suburbanite gains a sense of life's greater possibilities by contact with an elderly vineyard owner. In ``Snow Fish,'' two men attempt to recover a lost part of themselves through a winter trip to the Colorado Rockies. Nigg's characters are believable as they move from quiet isolation to engagement with a deeper sense of self. However, a number of the stories are marred by stiff writing. Decoys is more fully realized. Smith uses his experiences as a Southwesterner and Vietnam veteran as background to these tales of ranchers, Mexican-Americans, and ex-soldiers. In ``The Things We Know,'' a marriage falls apart as both partners realize their lives will never be what they had hoped, and in many of the other stories a sense of emptiness and loss fuels the anger of Smith's characters as they battle to a stalemate with life. An emotionally powerful collection. Lawrence Rungren, Bedford P.L., Mass.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Wayland Pr
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0933573049
• ISBN 13: 9780933573048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 71