Centripetal Force and Other Stories (Paperback)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

154898065X / 9781548980658

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Paperback. David Sedaris wrote, "A good short story should take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit." Sixteen stories are included in Jon Obermeyer's second collection of short fiction. Both cautionary and comic, these post-2008 financial meltdown tales feature characters who are caught off guard, in their personal lives and in financial status. A divorced man finds witnessing the aftermath of a horrific highway accident strangely purifying. A retired auto inspection mechanic finds himself kicked out of an art crawl open house, and it triggers flashback to an incident on a high school football field. A homeowner and father worries that the ex-con handyman fixing his termite-damaged subflooring might also be a suspect in a local murder. Two couples, one wealthy, the other struggling financially, vacation together in Italy, as one marriage disintegrates and the other relationship is strangely affirmed. A woman is forced to choose a way to assuage the hurt of an absent boyfriend over a holiday weekend, possibly reuniting with a former finance. An unemployed poet decides to open a retail store devoted solely to one book, his 400-page opus about the working man. The author in his preface writes: "For two years in the early part of this century, I wrote the annual circus program for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. I ventured each December to Ringling "Winter Quarters" at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, and spent three weeks interviewing the performers and watching the new acts in rehearsal. "To make the circus interesting for the 12-year-old boys who were the target audience for the book, we planned a series of graphics alongside the text. These visual, small nuggets based on the science behind the circus, comprised what my editor John Miller called our "Dorling-Kindersley" approach. "That's when I first learned the difference between Centripetal Force (center seeking) and Centrifugal Force (center fleeing). The Ringling equestrian act, circa 2002, worked on the defying the principle of Centrifugal Force, keeping the horses contained the small ring as they spun around it at fast speed. This act was known as "Little and Big," because horses and small dogs were involved. "So, what keeps us from flying off the surface of our spinning planet into Deep Space? It's gravity mostly, but I might argue there's a bit of centripetal force at work, a subtler form of grounding. What keeps us from flying off the proverbial handle? What distinguishes that line between sane and in-sane? "Fiction, like poetry, keeps us from becoming scatterlings. It's my job as a kind of Ringmaster, the professional artist, to salvage these little events that might have big import when laid out in a narrative arc; Little and Big. I'm going to take the tiny things that have happened to me, or something I've heard about from others or in a public forum, and whip them into an enjoyable froth, with some dialogue and description." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Titre
Centripetal Force and Other Stories (Paperback)
Auteur
Jon M. Obermeyer
Éditeur
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Année de publication
2018
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
154898065X
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781548980658

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