Howard, M: TESTAMENT

ISBN 10: 1939423961 / ISBN 13: 9781939423962

Published by Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp

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Neuware - The collected stories in Testament offer insight into the circumstances of others' lives-sometimes humorous, often disturbing.A girl finds ecstasy surfing on a secondhand board, but her life is altered by chance encounters on a cold Pacific beach.An eager young fisherman is heartbroken by the Valdez spill.Teen-age children become adults too soon, forced to parent their own inadequate mothers and fathers.Young lives are bent by coincidences and misplaced trust-a chance meeting, a found package, the fallout of others' drug problems.Friendships develop-or endure-beyond difficult obstacles.Ironic humor seeps through the arch back-and-forth in long-term marriages.These are stories with hopes for brilliant futures, for rebellious and creative people finding their way through the complexities and contradictions of modern America.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Howard, M: TESTAMENT
• Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• ISBN 10: 1939423961
• ISBN 13: 9781939423962
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 7D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 7 millimeters depth
• Weight: 186 grams

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The collected stories in Testament offer insight into the circumstances of others’ lives—sometimes humorous, often disturbing.A girl finds ecstasy surfing on a secondhand board, but her life is altered by chance encounters on a cold Pacific beach.An eager young fisherman is heartbroken by the Valdez spill.Teen-age children become adults too soon, forced to parent their own inadequate mothers and fathers.Young lives are bent by coincidences and misplaced trust—a chance meeting, a found package, the fallout of others’ drug problems.Friendships develop—or endure—beyond difficult obstacles.Ironic humor seeps through the arch back-and-forth in long-term marriages.These are stories with hopes for brilliant futures, for rebellious and creative people finding their way through the complexities and contradictions of modern America.