Stories in the Old Style - Softcover

Name: Stories in the Old Style
Author: Sim, Al
ISBN: 9780977228331

Sim, Al

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977228339 ISBN 13: 9780977228331

Publisher: Press 53, 2006

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This collection of eighteen previously published short stories by Al Sim includes "Get the Can," winner of the 2001 Glimmer Train Short Story Contest. Bill Roorbach, author of "Big Bend," "The Smallest Color" and "Temple Stream," says, "Stories in the Old Style harkens back to the days of Cannery Row, of Jack London, to the splendid era of American realists. Al Sim's people are the people Johnny Cash sings about, whether the setting is the great Southwest or Soho in New York City. And these are the people who make America such a complex and bedeviled place. So turn off the electric lights, unplug the phone, shoot your TV, and sit down in the easiest easy chair you've got: it's time to enjoy Stories in the Old Style."

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About the Author

Al Sim was born in Michigan and has lived in Pennsylvania, on Wake Island in the North Pacific, in Manhattan and Brooklyn, in central Massachusetts and on Cape Cod, and in New Mexico, Virginia, and Arizona. He has worked as a short order cook, a plumber s assistant, a laborer in a pirate wood-burning stove factory, a warehouseman, a deliveryman, a handyman s helper, a dishwasher and prep cook, a data entry clerk, a data analyst, a corporate banker, a construction laborer, and for the last fourteen years, as a technical writer and software developer. He is married and has two children. His fiction has appeared in numerous publications.

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