The goat fish and the lover's knot
Subtitle: stories
By: by Jack Driscoll
Series: Made in Michigan Writers Series; Made in Michigan writers series
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780814342954
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Ten stories mostly set in Michigan's northern lower peninsula, a landscape as gorgeous as it is severe. If at times the situations in these stories appear hopeless, the characters nonetheless, and even against seemingly impossible odds, dare to hope. These fictional individuals are so compassionately rendered that they can hardly help but be, in the hands of this writer, not only redeemed but made universal. The stories are written from multiple points of view and testify to Driscoll's range and understanding of human nature, and to how "the heart in conflict with itself" always defines the larger, more meaningful story. A high school pitching sensation loses his arm in a public school classroom during show and tell. A woman lives all of her ages in one day. A fourteen-year-old boy finds himself alone after midnight in a rowboat in the middle of the lake with his best friend's mother.
Table of contents: title: The goat fish and the lover's knot --; title: All the time in the world --; title: Calcheck and priest --; title: The alchemist's apprentice --; title: Land of the lost and found --; title: The good father --; title: A woman gone missing --; title: Here's how it works --; title: On this day you are all your ages --; title: That story.