This collection of short stories has characters in the middle of their lives when things fall apart. Jobs, hopes, and marriages disintegrate while they seek strategies and explanations.
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"Well-written and emotionally complex, these comically dark stories offer the reader a glimpse at an emerging talent."--"Charlotte Observer"
"Reading each of these gems is like focusing a micrscope on a particular attitude or manner of the human condition."--"Booklist "(starred review)
"Quietly spectacular. . . . He's no minimalist--these stories are long and must be read slowly--but Soos's protagonists recall Raymond Carver's language-impeded cast."--"Boston Review"
"His is a dark, disturbing (but I mean that in a good way) study of two simple questions: Why and why me?"--"Spokane Spokesman-Review"
Quietly spectacular. . . . He's no minimalist--these stories are long and must be read slowly--but Soos's protagonists recall Raymond Carver's language-impeded cast.--"Boston Review"
Reading each of these gems is like focusing a micrscope on a particular attitude or manner of the human condition.--"Booklist " (starred review)
Well-written and emotionally complex, these comically dark stories offer the reader a glimpse at an emerging talent.--"Charlotte Observer"
His is a dark, disturbing (but I mean that in a good way) study of two simple questions: Why and why me?--"Spokane Spokesman-Review"
Frank Soos is a professor of English at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. He is the author of the essay collection "Bamboo Fly Rod Suite," and the short-story collection "Unified Field Theory" (both Georgia).
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