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A Flannery O'Connor Award-winning collection of nine short stories take place in a variety of settings across the United States and feature men who experience passion, challenges to their typically sweet natures, and the folly of bad luck and poor advice. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Bill Roorbach, a 2002 NEA Fellow, is the author of Summers With Juliet, Writing Life Stories, and most recently, the novel The Smallest Color. He lives in western Maine.
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Immensely appealing . . . Roorbach's tender, affecting stories will leave you feeling as if you've come to understand your own missteps and misjudgments slightly better, and to forgive yourself a little more.
(Newsday)Roorbach is as raw and engaged a writer as you'll ever read . . . He rivals James Baldwin in his ability to miraculously open up rivers of male sentiment.
(Los Angeles Weekly )Here comes Bill Roorbach with nine good reasons to find the couch or some big chair. Reading these stories may be the reason we even have some of this furniture. Frankly, I recommend you take them into your house and meet these new people in Big Bend. They are as tender and troubled as we are, as charming, indecisive, nervous, blessed, crazy, and destined to survive, find love, miss it. I've been waiting for these stories for a while now.
(Ron Carlson)Readers will gobble these beautifully wrought, affecting stories, wanting more. . . . Roorbach falls, for me, into that small category of writers whose every book I must read, then reread.
(Jay Parini)An exceptional collection. . . . The characters are like people overheard at the next table or behind you in a line―people you instinctively want to pull for. . . . A quirky, clever, ironic, sympathetic, satisfying group of stories.
(David Walton)Bill Roorbach's stylish writing―with its surprising and generous observations about landscapes, internal and external―makes for great literature. What a pleasure to read these sharp, funny, sexy stories.
(Debra Spark)Roorbach's ability to convey the unexpceted whims of luck and happenstance and irony make these stories, like the best told around firelight or on front porches, take up residence in the listener. He is a storyteller's storyteller.
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- PublisherCounterpoint
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1582432570
- ISBN 13 9781582432571
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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