Wolf Note - Softcover

Libby Jacobs

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1599753375 ISBN 13: 9781599753379

Publisher: Rager Media, 2006

Synopsis

The nine stories in the debut collection, WOLF NOTE, thrust the reader into diverse worlds from San Francisco in the 1940's to the tangled imagination of a delusional adolescent in a contemporary mental ward, introducing characters with compassion, humor, and nuanced psychological insight. In "Egg Money" Sandra Mae Evans, "her wedding ring gone except for a thin, untanned stripe of skin encircling her ring finger like a half-exorcised ghost," sits under a too-hot hairdryer in a sleepy Midwest town's only beauty parlor and hatches a plot to gain independence from her philandering husband. A high school girl saves a friend -- but loses a friendship -- when they sneak out to attend a fraternity party, which "gave Greek letters the mystique of incantations that might transmute us from girls into women." In a revival meeting tent, where "the chairs were stenciled with 'Blaughman's Funeral Home' on the back and fat women all around me waved egg-shaped cardboard fans courtesy of the same sad business," a precocious ten-year-old learns that what passes as religion is sometimes as superficial as the shiny paint on the pearls she bought at the five-and-dime store.

About this title

About the Author

Libby Jacobs holds master's degrees in education from Virginia Commonwealth University and in theatre from the University of Michigan. A theatre director and playwright, her plays have been performed in New York City (at Lincoln Center and Off Broadway) Cleveland, Boston, and Valdez, Alaska. WOLF NOTE is her first collection of short stories. She is currently at work on a novel. Jacobs divides her time between Akron, Boston, and North Carolina, and she has been a particularly valuable member of the Northeast Ohio arts community over the years. She was the managing and artistic director for Coach House Theatre in Akron for seven years, and she's also the founder and former director of Actors' and Playwrights' Theatre in Akron, where she focused on producing new plays. Jacobs has been guest director at Weathervane Community Playhouse in Akron, several chamber music groups, a live WKSU (Kent State) production of WAR OF THE WORLDS broadcast, and others. Jacobs is also a sponsor and preliminary judge of the annual New Words Poetry contest at the Akron Art Museum.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rager Media
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1599753375
• ISBN 13: 9781599753379
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 73