How to Be Lonely

Dave Mainelli

ISBN 10 : 1732027579 ISBN 13 : 9781732027572

Editeur : WSC Press, 2021

Synopsis

What does it mean to be lonely? So much more than isolation, as these stories explain through gritty characters slogging through the human experience. Albert Camus said there is only one serious philosophical question or problem: Deciding whether or not life is worth living. How To Be Lonely tries in small part to show that no matter how hard or inane life can be, perhaps there can be a sliver of hope found; but that will entail that we either ignore the difficult realities the world presents or open our minds and accept that the rotten parts exist with the beneficent.

“In Mainelli’s stories, characters wish for the American dream. We could have God, money, and sex if we just find the key. But the key is out of reach. In one story, a man inherits $150K, and you think he’s found it. But happiness eludes him. Americans think they deserve to be happy, but in these stories, we don’t know how to make ourselves happy; it’s always achingly out of reach. Mainelli elbows into Denis Johnson’s territory here, gritty working-class middle America, dreaming of something we see on TV, something we can almost imagine feeling. These stories are raw and gritty, and as we settle into a hard year, these are the stories we will yearn for.”

―Kate Gale, Author of Goldilocks Zone

“But it has become more necessary,” he told her, “to know I am not crazy, than it is to be healed.”  David Mainelli’s people have nerves so frayed you pray for their vulnerable hearts, page by steel-edged page. I see a book in flames. Truth and redemption are fighting under apocalyptic American skies. A holy book of domestic passions by a writer so fiercely graced with insights into the heart’s naked chambers you just sit stunned.”

―Tom Paine, Author of A Boy’s Book of Nervous Breakdowns

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WSC Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1732027579
• ISBN 13: 9781732027572
• Reliure: Broschiert
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible