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In each of the stories in Robert Oldshue’s debut collection, the characters want to be decent but find that hard to define.
In the first story, an elderly couple is told that delivery of their Thanksgiving dinner has been canceled due to an impending blizzard. Unwilling to have guests but nothing to serve them, they make a run to the grocery, hoping to get there and back before the snow, but crash their car into the last of their neighbors. In “The Receiving Line,” a male prostitute tricks a closeted suburban schoolteacher only to learn that the trick is on him. In “The Woman On The Road,” a twelve-year-old girl negotiates the competing demands of her faith and her family as she is bat mitzvahed in the feminist ferment of the 1980s. The lessons she learns are the lessons learned by a ten-year-old boy in “Fergus B. Fergus,” after which, in “Summer Friend,” two women and one man renegotiate their sixty-year intimacy when sadly, but inevitably, one of them gets ill. “The Home Of The Holy Assumption” offers a benediction. A quadriplegic goes missing at a nursing home. Was she assumed? In the process of finding out, all are reminded that caring for others, however imperfectly—even laughably—is the only shot at assumption we have.
In upstate New York, a November storm is one that comes early in the season. If it catches people off-guard, it can change them in the ways Oldshue’s characters are changed by different but equally surprising storms.
In the first story, an elderly couple is told that delivery of their Thanksgiving dinner has been canceled due to an impending blizzard. Unwilling to have guests but nothing to serve them, they make a run to the grocery, hoping to get there and back before the snow, but crash their car into the last of their neighbors. In “The Receiving Line,” a male prostitute tricks a closeted suburban schoolteacher only to learn that the trick is on him. In “The Woman On The Road,” a twelve-year-old girl negotiates the competing demands of her faith and her family as she is bat mitzvahed in the feminist ferment of the 1980s. The lessons she learns are the lessons learned by a ten-year-old boy in “Fergus B. Fergus,” after which, in “Summer Friend,” two women and one man renegotiate their sixty-year intimacy when sadly, but inevitably, one of them gets ill. “The Home Of The Holy Assumption” offers a benediction. A quadriplegic goes missing at a nursing home. Was she assumed? In the process of finding out, all are reminded that caring for others, however imperfectly—even laughably—is the only shot at assumption we have.
In upstate New York, a November storm is one that comes early in the season. If it catches people off-guard, it can change them in the ways Oldshue’s characters are changed by different but equally surprising storms.
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When he isn’t writing, Robert Oldshue practices family medicine at a community health center in Boston. He holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College, and his work has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, the Gettysburg Review, and New England Review. He is married and has two children.
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Descrizione libro Softcover. Condizione: new. 1. In each of the stories in Robert Oldshues debut collection the characters want to be decent but find that hard to defineIn the first story an elderly couple is told that delivery of their Thanksgiving dinner has been canceled due to an impending blizzard Unwilling to have guests but nothing to serve them they make a run to the grocery hoping to get there and back before the snow but crash their car into the last of their neighbors In The Receiving Line a male prostitute tricks a closeted suburban schoolteacher only to learn that the trick is on him In The Woman On The Road a twelveyearold girl negotiates the competing demands of her faith and her family as she is bat mitzvahed in the feminist ferment of the 1980s The lessons she learns are the lessons learned by a tenyearold boy in Fergus B Fergus after which in Summer Friend two women and one man renegotiate their sixtyyear intimacy when sadly but inevitably one of them gets ill The Home Of The Holy Assumption offers a benediction A quadriplegic goes missing at a nursing home Was she assumed In the process of finding out all are reminded that caring for others however imperfectlyeven laughablyis the only shot at assumption we haveIn upstate New York a November storm is one that comes early in the season If it catches people offguard it can change them in the ways Oldshues characters are changed by different but equally surprising storms. Codice articolo DADAX1609384512
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