Goodnight nobody
Subtitle: stories
By: Ethel Rohan
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Queen's Ferry Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Plano, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781938466144
Description: Fiction. Ethel Rohan knows how to startle the dark. Her compassionate intensity illuminates the prose and the people of GOODNIGHT NOBODY--thirty short stories that are as sharp as they are earnest, luminous stories that reflect with sparse elegance our humanity and our often brokenness. As the moon circles the Earth, always separate but always drawn near, so too the cratered, alienated characters of GOODNIGHT NOBODY orbit others, striving to connect. By turns heartwarming and heartrending, this collection constellates ordinary lives gone wrong--the disgraced Dublin Reservist; the wife jealous of bees; the pyromaniacal mother craving warmth; the one-armed identical twin facing incompleteness; the photographer striving for the perfect image before losing her sight; and a host of others in trouble. Lives gone wrong, but always trying to get right.
Table of contents: title: Major drill --; title: Flash --; title: Baby --; title: Keepsake --; title: Out of the wreckage --; title: Whales --; title: Leaves --; title: Bee killer --; title: Riding the blue --; title: Darkroom --; title: Sweet pea --; title: Priority --; title: Saturday girl --; title: I love you! --; title: The defiance of gravity --; title: Chips from the broken sky --; title: The man of the casa --; title: Bang bang --; title: Imagine --; title: The daughter of God --; title: Illustrated girl --; title: Haunt --; title: That time he felt the world turn --; title: Fire --; title: Sorry --; title: The splitting image --; title: Out of the ashes --; title: Dark stars --; title: Goodnight nobody --; title: Someplace better.