description: Fat Phil can't believe his luck at dice, but when his friends turn nasty, he pleads with fate to let him lose; a salesman psychs himself up with encouraging messages from fortune cookies, until the advice turns sour; a young boy experiences the onset of puberty as a sudden crushing weight one summer's afternoon." "Hubert Selby began as a writer of short stories and he excels in this form, plunging the reader headfirst into the densely realised worlds and dilemmas of his protagonists. He offers a passionate empathy with ordinary dreams, a brilliant ear for the street and for the voices of conscience and self-deceit that torment us all.
language: English
title: Song of The Silent Snow
titlecomplete: Song of The Silent Snow
genres: 20th Century, Short Stories, American, Americana, Modern, Drama, Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction
ratings_count: 1291
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers