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Descrizione libro Condizione: New. Codice articolo V9781932961058
Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. For a long time now, Edward Falco has quietly established his place among the absolute best American storytellers. Those who havent yet read him dont want to miss this chance. Thats why were so excited to offer the very best of his work, gathered together for the first time, to a wider readership.Falcos stories are unforgettable, dangerous as a high-wire act without a net, filled with dramatic action, and peopled with believable characters challenged by events into making risky moral choices, so emotionally true that readers will carry them around for a long time. His prose is tense, sharp, and beautifully, wonderfully rich. In story after story, Falcos characters find the comfortable order of their lives ambushed by an upswelling of dark forces beyond their control. In order to protect the lives of familylovers, wives, and especially childrenfrom a catastrophe, they often must summon up the personal courage to climb back from their own monsters, to set aside old, private scars. The decisions they make reveal their bonds, the set of their hearts, and the harsh nature of the culture we all live in today.If someone out there could write the contemporary counterpart to Flannery OConoors classic A Good Man is Hard to Find, it would be Falco. His are good, old-fashioned, hard-to-find stories set way out there on the edge. Here are sixteen of Ed Falco's finest stories, ten have never been previously collected. Over the years his prize-winning stories have appeared in nearly every important magazine and journal in the country, from Atlantic Monthly and Playboy to literary journals such as The Missouri Review. They've been reprinted in Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize and the Best American Mystery Stories. In these stories, Falco's characters negotiate personal minefields, trying (and sometimes failing) to overcome their own personality flaws and demons in order to protect their children and lovers in the face of the all too often dangerous currents in American culture-violence, sex, drugs, neglect and abuse, the upswellings of contemporary forces beyond their control. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781932961058