First and Fiftieth: And Other Stories - Softcover

Foreman, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0952596474 ISBN 13: 9780952596479

Publisher: Paradise Press, 2002

Synopsis

Fifteen short stories, all first person narratives, from 16 year old boy to 70 year old woman, spanning the globe

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From the Back Cover

"Sometimes you sit, watch the trains, the sunset, the rain. Sometimes you talk. Tell your story if you've a mind to. Trouble is, memory changes things. Things you want to forget. Things you want to remember that never happened. Happens to everybody. Gets so, nobody's story's true. Not yours, not mine. But it's all we got."
"We did not see ourselves as losers. We were convinced that the couples who ran businesses together, vacationed in Mexico and planned their retiremtn in Russian River were no happier than ourselves. We were the ones whose lives had been eventful; each of us had suffered in our different ways and, because we had suffered, we had lived. Now we were free to shut out the present and the past, the noise and the dust, the freeways and the rat race, the threats of earthquakes and voilence. Life may have shrunk, but life was quiet and quiet was good."
Martin Foreman's latest collection of short stories comprises first person narratives spanning the globe from Rio de Janeiro to Los Angeles, Africa to Nepal, London to Siberia. Men and women from teenagers to grandparents each speak in a distinctive voice and with intense emotion as love and sex, violence and humour, anger and pathos meet in this kaleidoscope of human comedy and tragedy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Paradise Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0952596474
• ISBN 13: 9780952596479
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160