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ISBN-10: 1940425204
ISBN-13: 9781940425207
Publisher: Vandalia Press
Publish Date: 03/01/2015
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.40" W, 0.70" H

Room of Rain

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Overview

The narratives throughout Gary Fincke’s sixth collection of short stories contains newsworthy events that are chronicled secondhand: the shooting of a policemen, the murder of a house flipper, the firing of a teacher for punching a violent student, the accidental drowning of a gay man in a flood, and a fire somewhat accidentally set by a juvenile smoker in a school. Despite these surprising events, the narrator of each story is an ordinary person caught up in the action but preoccupied by other things, whether zombie movies, collecting unusual words, the oddity of other people’s sexual habits, or what to do in retirement. These shocking incidents become both central and peripheral to the narrative, as Fincke portrays the fluctuating emotions and self-protective reflections of fathers, sons, and husbands, creating a world where individuals rarely understand each other yet still arrive at moments of compassion, tolerance, perseverance, and familial love.

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"Seamless short stories by an old master of the form."
Madison Smartt Bell, author of the Haitian Revolutionary trilogy of All Soul's Rising, Master of the Crossroads, and The Stone That The Builder Refused

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Details

ISBN-10: 1940425204
ISBN-13: 9781940425207
Publisher: Vandalia Press
Publish Date: 03/01/2015
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.40" W, 0.70" H
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