Fables of Rescue - Hardcover

Wirick, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1771715685 ISBN 13: 9781771715683

Publisher: Ekstasis Editions America, 2024

Synopsis

Anxious hearts and tough-skinned facades, in both clever urban millennials and "good country people," are rendered by Wirick with uncanny wisdom and perceptiveness, what the critic James Woods calls "Serious Noticing." A family on a cross-country trip takes in a Garden of Eden theme park-complete with serpent-and are stripped of their hayseed innocence; a woman loses her home and searches the Dark Web for remedies; a college man's flirtations reveal unwelcome surprises from his prey; college engineering students, skydiving, are mistakenly dropped over the night ocean; an artist's cleaning lady assembles tossed items into creations of her own.

Wirick's people are true to their dreams, guided by their hungers for art and love, and find in their searches adventures that are both earthly and supremely transcendent. These are a gritty testament to how we live now, battling against ennui and dead time, working inside the enormous fantasy systems of romance and the construction of personality. His pen burnishes the roughest of predicaments, and we see in them mirrors of ourselves, our Others, and the vectors of passion flowing between them. As always, the style is marvelous, "as close to song as prose can

become."

Edition details

• Publisher: Ekstasis Editions America
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1771715685
• ISBN 13: 9781771715683
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 170