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Shaw, Fred

 
9781449036287: As the Mist Resembles the Rain
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1449036287 ISBN 13 : 9781449036287
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2010

Synopsis

In this collection of stories we find the world's smartest dog that has senses not understood - he's also a killer. We find a mother who carries a fifty-five year grudge against her son to her grave, a beating that takes more than twelve years to revenge, a one-legged Vietnam vet intent on murder and an eight year old boy frightened by a thunderstorm and . . . This varied mix of short stories contains pieces of the author's life. The pieces, however, are not portraits but snapshots. Fred Shaw tells these in a style that is straightforward with little adornment, allowing the reader to fill in the blanks where needed. There is truth and there is fiction. Fred seeks truth in the reaction of the characters to guilt, greed and the many pitfalls of the human condition created by his fictional settings. Several of the stories are memoirs whose truth is blurred by time but nonetheless still seek the actual, true response to a situation. There is little presented for historical purposes but the places and the times are coincident with his life. The protagonist might be called Fred, Harry, Buck or Cliff but they are all distorted pictures of the writer. The title piece, "As the Mist Resembles the Rain", is a short reminiscence explaining to the reader that all of these stories are told through the filter of the many years of his life.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Fred Shaw loves living in Big Canoe, Georgia with his wife, Nancy, his two dogs, Rags and Candy and cat, Lady Day. Writing short stories was not part of his activities until he joined the Big Canoe Writer's Group in 2000. Smoke Signals, Big Canoe's community newspaper has published dozens of his articles. As the theatre critic for Smoke Signals On-Line he writes a monthly column "Curtain Calls". He writes short stories for his own pleasure. Born in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1932 at the height of the great depression his family was poor-they owned nothing. His family moved to the small railroading town of Enola, PA when he was fourteen. While attending Enola High School he met Nancy, his wife of fifty-eight years. After graduating he joined the Navy and completed a four year "hitch". The GI Bill gave him the opportunity to go to college even though he had two children. He has a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware and a master's degree in business from Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ. His four children, who love and respect him dearly, were raised in Willingboro, NJ. In 1994 he retired from the Martin Marietta Corporation in Princeton, NJ as the program manager for an Air Force weather satellite program. Before that he worked for RCA and GE. He worked on this country's space program for about thirty years. Dogs, the environment, listening to jazz music and reading, in addition to writing, are his principal retirement activities. As the former president, adoption chairman and now a volunteer of the Big Canoe Animal Rescue, this organization has captured his interest and heart. "This small group with limited facilities has saved thousands of dogs in northern Georgia over the years".

Présentation de l'éditeur

In this collection of stories we find the world's smartest dog that has senses not understood - he's also a killer. We find a mother who carries a fifty-five year grudge against her son to her grave, a beating that takes more than twelve years to revenge, a one-legged Vietnam vet intent on murder and an eight year old boy frightened by a thunderstorm and . . . This varied mix of short stories contains pieces of the author's life. The pieces, however, are not portraits but snapshots. Fred Shaw tells these in a style that is straightforward with little adornment, allowing the reader to fill in the blanks where needed. There is truth and there is fiction. Fred seeks truth in the reaction of the characters to guilt, greed and the many pitfalls of the human condition created by his fictional settings. Several of the stories are memoirs whose truth is blurred by time but nonetheless still seek the actual, true response to a situation. There is little presented for historical purposes but the places and the times are coincident with his life. The protagonist might be called Fred, Harry, Buck or Cliff but they are all distorted pictures of the writer. The title piece, "As the Mist Resembles the Rain", is a short reminiscence explaining to the reader that all of these stories are told through the filter of the many years of his life.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1449036287
ISBN 13 
9781449036287
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
200
Coordonnées du fabricant
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