Some Bore Gifts Stories

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9781927409978
  • 02 juli 2017
  • 228 pagina's
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Fiction. A.G. Harmon's SOME BORE GIFTS: STORIES is an eclectic collection of stories spanning the traditional to the satirical, with a kaleidoscope of viewpoints and characters that includes tree cutters, department store pianists, museum guides, physicians, florists, actresses, bank managers, junk salesmen, personal trainers, and English professors. Harmon is as spellbinding in his depiction of the disenfranchised as of the socially poised, with vivid scenes of both the quotidian and the aberrant and startling. This captivating book challenges and entertains from start to finish.

"A.G. Harmon is a writer of the first order. These are elegant and humble and ruminative stories of people reaching their worldly ends in one way or another, and their encounters there with grace and a hard-wrought hope. SOME BORE GIFTS: STORIES is in itself a gift, and A.G. Harmon a writer who blesses us with his art."—Bret Lott

"A.G. Harmon is that rare thing, a writer who loves his characters without idolizing them. In prose that is alternately crystalline and gritty, he shows how a heart in hiding can be brought back to life through a chance encounter with another. SOME BORE GIFTS: STORIES are stories that track the movement from despair to hope, loss to restitution, the seemingly random steps we take along the road of grace. Harmon's consummate storytelling makes us believe in, not only the resilience, but also the essential grandeur of the human spirit."—Suzanne M. Wolfe

"In these stories, Harmon takes you—lyrically, sometimes brusquely, always with good humor—through a gallery of lives. Some full and wise, others shallow and self-concerned, still others stunted or misunderstood—a stunning human spectrum. I laughed out loud, flipped pages in worry, even felt a knife slice through my palm. But most visceral—and this is Harmon's gift—I felt myself disappear in moments of true, transcendent beauty."—Samuel Thomas Martin

"A.G. Harmon's new collection of stories, SOME BORE GIFTS: STORIES, is stunningly diverse, displaying a vast range of characters and the skill to draw them that enchants his reader. From the glimpse of a migrant worker as he begins his story, 'the impression he left upon the listener was that of a tune hummed from a porch step, during the long liquid hours of the first, floating dusk,' to the voice of a wounded piano tuner who 'leans into the memory, his gaze fastened to what he must see,' Harmon creates a span of characters—an aging movie star, a college English professor—and falls into none of the possible and dangerous pitfalls. Readers are, indeed, invited to listen on the front porch. Their reward is seeing the redemptive moment of understanding that Harmon's characters discover."—Margaret-Love Denman

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Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
02 juli 2017
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228
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A G Harmon
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152 mm
Product hoogte
13 mm
Product lengte
229 mm
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152 mm
Verpakking hoogte
13 mm
Verpakking lengte
229 mm
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340 g

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