When You Find Us We Will Be Gone - Softcover

Linforth, Christopher

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9780991107490: When You Find Us We Will Be Gone

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ISBN 10: 0991107497 ISBN 13: 9780991107490

Publisher: Lamar University Press, 2014

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In these twelve stories, Christopher Linforth explores the complexities, difficulties, and troubling alienation of the modern world. This diverse, innovative collection spans the globe and includes elegant meditations on a failing relationship in post-Communist Croatia, a violin appraiser's quest to auction a rare Stradivarius, a difficult and troubling father-son relationship in 1950s Levittown, a posse of cowboys hired to round-up feral cattle in Japan, and a post-modern novella charting the identity breakdown of a writer.

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"Whether Christopher Linforth is writing about cowboys in Fukushima, once-famous Czech violinists, or insurance salesmen in Levittown, his fiction always exhibits the combination of intelligence and compassion that is the hallmark of the best writers. When You Find Us We Will Be Gone is an auspicious debut collection by an exciting young writer."

--Ed Falco, author of Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha: New and Selected Stories, and the New York Times Bestselling novel, The Family Corleone

"In When You Find Us We Will Be Gone, Christopher Linforth takes us on a multicultural trip around the globe. His stories can be gritty and realistic, absurdist and surrealistic, delectably post-modern or wryly traditional, deeply ironic or disarmingly romantic. But whatever the setting and whatever the point of view, Linforth's powerful prose makes us care about ordinary people plagued by extraordinary yearnings."

--Lucinda Roy, author of Lady Moses and The Hotel Alleluia

Review:

"The sting of Christopher Linforth's stories lingers longafter the final page."

--Foreword Reviews

"The stories...are at once bold but also subtle, haunting butalso full of hope, spanning decades and continents."

--The Iowa Review

"His lean prose and rich diction add to the palpablelonging of the utterly human."

--The Roanoke Times

"Linforth...takesreaders on a world trip."

--RichmondTimes-Dispatch

"You'dthink he must have racked up some serious frequent flier miles while he workedon his stories. But you'd be wrong."

--WVTFPublic Radio

"Linforth has given us a rich array of plots, charactersand settings in his first collection, and one that's worth reading for shortstory lovers."

--At the Inkwell

"Linforth's style is smart and crafted with elegance."
--Manhattan Mercury

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