Apparition and Late Fiction: A Novella and Stories - Hardcover

Lynch, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393042073 ISBN 13: 9780393042078

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2010

Synopsis

A Methodist minister gone astray, a grieving trout bum gone fishing with his father s remains, an artist overwhelmed by incarnate beauty these are just a few of the iconic yet utterly unique characters in Thomas Lynch s spirited collection. Set in Michigan s north woods, in Ohio s interior, on islands, in casinos, and in distant cities, these stories are linked by the gone and not forgotten: former spouses, dead parents, and missing children. In pursuit of love and its redemptions, these are pilgrims haunted by memory, dogged by desire, made radiant by romance and its denouements. With the elegant prose of Frederick Busch and the Irish sensibility of William Trevor, Lynch masterfully creates a world where mirage and apparition are commonplace, where people searching for connection and old comforts find them both near at hand and oddly out of reach.

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Review:

There is wisdom, courage, and great depth of feeling here. The pieces in this powerful, meditative collection are all beautifully drawn; the title story is a masterpiece.

About the Author:

Thomas Lynch's essays, poems and stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Granta, The New York Times, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Milford, Michigan where he has been the funeral director since 1974, and in Moveen, Co. Clare, Ireland where he keeps an ancestral cottage.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0393042073
• ISBN 13: 9780393042078
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256