num_pages: 130
description: Writing at the top of her game Sharon Butala returns to the short story in this astounding new collection. In Butalas world the season of fury and wonder is the season of old age. The stories in this book are the stories of women who have had experiences; women who have seen much of life and have felt joy of success and the sting of shortcomings; women who hold opinions and come to conclusions about the lives theyve lived.But Sharon Butala gives us more  not only is each story an observation on aging each story in Season of Fury and Wonder pays tribute to a classic work of literature that has had an impact on Butalas writing. Among those writers are Raymond Carver Willa Cather Flannery OConnor John Cheever James Joyce Shirley Jackson Anton Chekhov Alan Sillitoe Ernest Hemingway and Edgar Allan Poe. The result of Butalas effort is a series of deeply felt tributes to those writers to their creativity and their power to inspire.
language: English
title: Season of Fury and Wonder
publisher: Freehand Books