The stories in Kirk Nesset's ""Paradise Road"" vividly examine the various pitfalls, both physical and emotional, we encounter and suffer trying to find lasting meaning in love. Stark and unsentimental, they feature the chiaroscuro of particular worlds and particular lives, infused with the yearning and muted desperation that comes after passion has bent us, burned us, and cast us aside. ""Nothing comes and goes without a trace,"" muses the narrator of ""The Prince of Perch Fishing,"" the collection's opening tale. ""In this world there are consequences for everything."" Such stories speak to the fleeting yet monumental moments of our lives, which catch us off guard, unveiling and unsettling us, each leaving its indelible mark. The stories also offer paths, paved or unpaved, leading out of the ashes, out of the wilds of upheaval and betrayal and pain. Story by story, ""Paradise Road"" guides us deeply into ourselves - into new kinds of awareness, if not transformation. Winner of the 2007 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
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The figures and voices that appear in Paradise Road are like ghosts from an ancient land that move toward their destinies with hope and defiance. Mr. Nesset conducts their journeys with a sure hand while making fiction of striking originality and beauty. Paradise Road may go though geography unfamiliar to some of us, but the route, once taken, is unforgettable. - Hilary Masters ""Paradise Road delivers us, in a barbed and wiry prose, into the certainties of a future riding in hard and indifferent, a world brittle and chipped at the edges, no home at all for the soft-hearted or soft-minded. Kirk Nesset works the mean and woeful precincts of the heart, his people gone whichaway with want, every sunrise revealing yet another chance to screw up, every midnight a welcome relief from misrule and mistake. Here's a book like gunfire down the block - spooky and unexpected and unforgettable - a book that grabs you by the scruff and shakes you silly with its wisdom and its odd and dangerous beauty."" - Lee K. Abbott
Kirk Nesset is associate professor of English and creative writing at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. He is the author of Mr. Agreeable and the nonfiction study The Stories of Raymond Carver. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and numerous grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His stories, poems, and translations have appeared in the Paris Review, Ploughshares, the Southern Review, and the Kenyon Review, among others.
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