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Genre/Form: | short stories Fiction Short stories Nouvelles Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Darrell Spencer |
ISBN: | 0820321826 9780820321820 |
OCLC Number: | 1012162383 |
Notes: | "Winner of the Flannery O'Connor award for short fiction." Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2000. |
Description: | 2 volumes of press braille |
Contents: | Park host -- Blood work -- There's too much news -- The 12-inch dog -- Caution: men in trees -- Late night TV -- Please to forgive sloppiness -- It's a lot scarier if you take Jesus out -- Pronto bucks. |
Responsibility: | by Darrell Spencer. |
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Because of the dazzling verbal texture-syntax that contorts itself to serve up pleasure, his telling and idiosyncratic details, sentences full of gaps and light-it's tempting to say Spencer's forte is style. But here style maps the sensibilities of men who live in awe of turning points, unseen precipices where events and responses to them accrue and characters turn up temporarily reprieved or guilty. These are complexly crafted stories about how it feels to be complexly moral.|The collection . . . is invested with . . . the stark honesty and blunt humor of [Spencer's] characters.|Riveting and a guaranteed great read . . . belong[s] at the top of your reading list.|Neatly unified in theme and tone.|Spencer writes stories about men. Men who are men among men and lost among women. Men who feel useless, outmoded, impotent, and out of step . . . But men don't speak of these things, any more than they speak of the heavy burden of love. "Why does everything have to be a competition?" asks the wife of one protagonist. That question is at the heart of this award-winning collection. Read more...

