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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.… (altro)
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Here I sat on a boulder by the winter-steaming river and put my head in my hands and considered time—which is next to nothing, merely what vanishes, and yet can make one's elbows nearly pierce one's thighs.
GALWAY KINNELL
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For Barry Lopez
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I TOLD MY DAD, "As far as I know," when he asked if the entire clan would be there.
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Elsewhere—that's the direction she's always been headed in.
Everything's quiet, the loudest sound anywhere the tips of our two cigarettes burning back with every inhale.
We are beautiful, is what I think, travelers momentarily stranded inside the closed-off borderlands beyond which lie our future lives.
The moon is almost full, and for those delayed few seconds before the snow falls harder into the dark, the disappearing landscape turns purplish blue.
I've never been in a fistfight. Not even a serious shoving match, though I'd sparred one time with Calcheck, three two-minute rounds on a timer, just to experience what mortal combat might feel like.
A single offhand, mistimed remark and tempers flare like hay fires, so much meanness and shouting that Vanessa has to cover her ears and hum while the ground shifts and tilts around her.
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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.
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