Isolation, and Other Stories - Hardcover

Greer, Robert O.

9781888570472: Isolation, and Other Stories

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1888570474 ISBN 13: 9781888570472

Publisher: Davies & Assocs, 2001

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Fiction: short story collection.

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From the Publisher:

Two multi-talented black men, Robert Greer, author, and Jeff Hall, illustrator, have come together to produce a book very specifically about their country. An artistically produced collection of beautifully illustrated short stories about America - all locations, big cities and small towns, mountains and plains - and about Americans - all colors, all shapes, and from the old and wise to the young and impetuous.

The writing has produced what is almost a primer on the short story form. The book contains some tightly knit stories that are plot-driven, and some more flexible stories in which the character development facilitates the unfolding of the plots. Every writer of fiction and every student in a creative writing program should have a copy of this book.

From the Author:

The stories collected here are stories of family and friction, race and gender, friendship and fear, discovery and despair. These stories - set against the vast diversity of America's big cities and small towns, and mountains and plains - are intended to shape their characters ranging from homeless people to ticket scalpers, from cowboys to youthful voyeurs, from mentors and teachers to searchers and loners. Isolation is about men and women, both young and old, looking for their identities and seeking direction.

Above all, these stories are about the human spirit, soaring or desperately trying to land. Included in these pages are tales of daily life, stories of love, faith, desire, disappointment, humor and luck. The characters who live within the pages of this book struggle to find meaning in their disparate, sometimes stark, and always complicated lives. Faced with the necessity of choosing, or having made a choice, they find themselves, sometimes supported by friends and sometimes alone, at one of life's decision-making junctions.

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