The ice child
Subtitle: and other stories
By: Leon Arden
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9781491772829
Copyright date: 2015
Work titles: Short stories
Description: The collection introduces a wide cast of characters and scenarios. A husband and wife, touring Mexico, are confronted while on horseback, by savage bandits; a young man tries to rescue his mother from his father&#x2019;s obsession, which is filling their apartment with more books than it can hold; a comic drama between two lovers is waged solely through messages left on their answering machines; a son wheels his sick father into a hospital and demands, at gun point, that he be given a heart by-pass; a lovely English woman arrives in New York to find she must share an apartment with a man she has never met; and a failed writer, with two friends, programs a computer to create a salable story, but ominously the PC also predicts their immediate future.  --Amazon.com
Table of contents: title: Coming of age --; title: Faust takes a long day's journey through the looking glass with Madame Bovary --; title: Come live with me and be my love --; title: If music be the food of love --; title: A feminine ending --; title: Coming attractions --; title: A pre-existing condition --; title: Craters of the Moon Motel --; title: The book collector --; title: The ice child --; title: Make my bed and light the light.