The Salvage Yard – Collected Stories - Couverture souple

Cook, Christopher

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798387626371

Editeur : Independently published, 2023

Synopsis

Award-winning writer Christopher Cook, a native of East Texas, has lived most of his adult life abroad. That unique perspective has inspired this remarkable collection of 10 short stories: half are set in Europe, the other half in the American South.

The unusual range of characters, settings, and themes explored in these stories is striking. In “The Pickpocket,” set in cosmopolitan Paris, the protagonist is an aging professional pickpocket who recounts what he has learned while lamenting the decline in his craft among younger criminals. In “Was JFK Gay?” – set in Houston, Texas – a woman addicted to conservative tabloid talk shows on radio and TV discovers her adult son is the very sort of person her media icons love to ridicule.

Whether set in Budapest or Bohemia, in Birmingham or Beaumont, these extraordinary stories—some tragic, some comical, some both at once—explore the conflicts confronting distinctive characters who are struggling to make sense of a complex modern world.

While Cook’s novel writing style has been compared to Elmore Leonard, James Lee Burke, and Daniel Woodrell, among others, his short stories are more reminiscent of Flannery O’Connor and Isaac Bashevis Singer—poetic, powerful, and all too human.

What they are saying about Christopher Cook—

“. . . fearless originality, a lyric voice that sings itself raw.”
—The New York Times

“. . . a master of setting, characterization, dialogue and narrative.”
—The Dallas Morning News

“Lively, darkly comic, enormously entertaining.”
—Houston Chronicle

“Christopher Cook writes like an angel.”
—James Crumley, author of The Last Good Kiss

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798387626371
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 223
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