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Now back in print--a prize-winning collection of short fiction from the acclaimed author of Mystery Ride. Written in spare yet vigorous prose, with barely contained heat, these six gripping stories depict men and women struggling with guilty impulses or tested by extreme situations.
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Robert Boswell is the author of six novels including Century’s Son, Mystery Ride, and Crooked Hearts, three story collections including The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, a play, a cyberpunk novel, and two nonfiction books. He has received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction, the PEN West Award for Fiction, the John Gassner Prize for Playwriting, and the Evil Companions Award. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, Pushcart Prize Stories, Esquire, Colorado Review, and other magazines. He teaches creative writing at the University of Houston and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.
Six dexterously shaped stories make up this volume, winner of the 1985 Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction. Boswell's believable characters are involved in situations that are sometimes painfully true-to-life. One story concerns an American soldier who loses both feet while fighting in the Korean War; another tells of a black New York City policeman who visits his in-laws in Tennessee, where he is tormented by his fear that he is a racist and by the discovery that he loves his wife's sister. The author's ability to create affecting relationships is evident in such entries as "Kentucky," which deals with the growing pains of three brothers, and the title story, in which a young man returns home from college and tries to save his girlfriend from her destructive lifestyle. A satisfying, if at times disturbing, collection. January
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- PublisherPlume
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0452258901
- ISBN 13 9780452258907
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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