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Synopsis
A collection of short stories, the winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award, captures the lives and fortunes of men confronting key turning points, changes, and choices in their lives. Reprint.
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Review
"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." -"Booklist "
"Neatly unified in theme and tone."--"Book"
"The collection . . . is invested with . . . the stark honesty and blunt humor of [Spencer's] characters."--"Publishers Weekly"
"Riveting and a guaranteed great read . . . belong[s] at the top of your reading list."--"High Plains Literary Review"
"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."--Debra Monroe, author of "On the Outskirts of Normal"
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.--Debra Monroe "author of "On the Outskirts of Normal" "
The collection . . . is invested with . . . the stark honesty and blunt humor of [Spencer's] characters.--"Publishers Weekly"
Riveting and a guaranteed great read . . . belong[s] at the top of your reading list.--"High Plains Literary Review"
Neatly unified in theme and tone.--"Book"
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.--"Booklist "
About the Author
Darrell Spencer is the Stocker Professor of Creative Writing at Ohio State University. He is the author of a novel, One Mile Past Dangerous Curve, and four story collections, the last of which, Bring Your Legs with You, won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize.
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