The Critical List - Couverture souple

Wenke, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1947548980 ISBN 13 : 9781947548985

Editeur : Regal House Publishing LLC, 2020

Synopsis

: In The Critical List, a widowed young woman, her leg broken during an abusive, sexually charged incident with her brutal second husband, attends a child's birthday party at a seedy indoor play rink. A retired cop can't stop fixing a brain-damaged war vet's problems. The Hollywood soap opera writer of ""Dawn Becomes the Darkness"" tangles with fraying family ties, while anticipating disasters about to erupt on what he calls ""the post-contemporary tundra."" In this world, people teeter on the edge--a former jailbird under house arrest; a would-be teenage parricide; a former philosophy professor, now homeless, mind blown, living in the subway underground. Wenke's collection dramatizes what it means to push up against the boundaries of desire, even when one is often turned away, and it reminds us that somewhere in the murk of humanity the balm of comedy occasionally delivers relief.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Wenke was born in Philadelphia, PA, and grew up in the company of ten siblings and his parents. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and graduate degrees from the University of Connecticut. The author of books on Herman Melville and J. D. Salinger, he teaches American literature and writing at Salisbury University. He lives on Maryland's Eastern Shore with his wife and four children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Regal House Publishing LLC
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1947548980
• ISBN 13: 9781947548985
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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