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The high gabled houses of upstate New York's Mohawk Valley shelter characters in this superb collection of ten short stories set in the 1950s. Steely, hard and gritty as the dark streets of an upstate winter, these men and women struggle in isolation. Love and compassion are in short supply except for the final story, ``The Washing Machine,'' in which young John Sobieski agonizes over the fate of his long-dead grandparents. ``When he saw her burdened and distressed, he brought home the washing machine that would ease her life for her. When still she failed of happiness, he threw the washing machine into the lake.'' Beuchler, whose stories have been included in the O. Henry Awards, has created stories that are flawlessly constructed, spare and delicate in the telling, but whose final impact leaves the reader with a sense of restless longing and emptiness. Beuchler's characters seldom know what they want, and their sad strivings for unknown pleasures are sometimes difficult to endure. The men often disappoint--they die, they give up, they run away or become brutish. As years go by his women simply harden. Even joyous occasions like marriage and birth are denied celebration. Baer, the main character of ``The Ambulance Driver,'' comes close to creating the life we think he wants; then, in a single harsh and cruel action, he destroys it all. Beuchler's talent for creating a sense of place, even a place we might not want to visit, is profound, and his characters, not necessarily people we'd like to know, are unforgettable.
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In That Heaven There Should be a Place for Me. Stories of the Mohawk Valley
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Condition: Fine. Second printing. From the publisher: "All of James Buechler's fiction is set in or near Schenectady, NY, though the city's name is never used, roughly between 1930 and 1960 His family lived in one of the high gabled two-family houses like those pictured in Charles Burchfield's watercolor "Six O'Clock" -- the supper hour -- used as the cover illustration for his book IN THAT HEAVEN THERE SHOULD BE A PLACE FOR ME Both of his grandfathers, as well as his father and his mother, worked for the General Electric Company For them and for many others it was a time before the automobile, and Buechler became familiar with the city and countryside on foot, later on his bicycle, later still as a passenger in cars owned by someone else, and finally, in his twenties, on a motorcycle like the Harley-Davidson in his first published story, which won 2nd Prize in the O Henry Awards volume for 1956" Publisher's Weekly said " IN THAT HEAVEN THERE SHOULD BE A PLACE FOR ME was a superb collection of ten stories set in the 1950s" This fine copy has printed, illustrated wrappers No marks or damage at all Appears unread There is an author's inscriptat the top of the title page, dated 1995 250 pp. Seller Inventory # AA1939
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