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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. A Dry Heat was surprising and wonderful. Short stories based on real life events, it’s engaging and easy to follow. It kind of took me back to my own childhood, teen age and then adult years. Gregory Williams’ family sounds like the type of family that I would have loved to hang around with. Mr Williams descriptions of characters and places are easy to imagine. Highly recommend.Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. This is a collection of short stories that will resonate with you long after you've finished reading. Gregory Williams' collection is a chronology of life and its challenges. Selected short stories are included for childhood, early/mid-adulthood, and late adulthood. I loved seeing how the collection wrapped up with death and the afterlife in "Rainbow Trout." Based on the title and description, I was expecting more references to Arizona (and Phoenix) to be interwoven into the book. As someone living in Phoenix, that was a slight disappointment to me. However, I highly enjoyed the book. Thank you to LibraryThing and Grand Canyon Press for my copy of the book. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. You don't have to have grown up playing baseball or be a physician to love this collection. It's great to sit down with if you only have a little time on your lunch hour, or you could read the whole thing in a lazy Sunday afternoon. I especially enjoyed the two stories of youth, one reminiscent of 'The Wonder Years' and the other with a darker vibe. The triumphs, travails (and temptations) of doctors dominate the middle group of stories, while the concluding stories focus on old age, loss and closure. My least favorite story, 'The Rainbow Trout,' may well be most people's favorite. By refraining from telling us what to think or feel, and instead showing us what the characters think, feel, and do, Williams allows us to enter into their moral world and reflect upon our own. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. --ARC provided thanks to Grand Canyon Press and LibraryThing.--Blurbs do the collection a disservice, suggesting a male-centric vanity that does not happen. The stories are very human, very personal, and quite tightly focused in familiar, slice-of-life scenarios; while each is presented via a male perspective character, that is certainly not the limit of their scope. Maturity, morality, and mortality are the guiding themes throughout, and Williams does a superb job of making clear that a human life is a work in progress at all stages of the game. The female characters also reflect Williams' deep respect for the women and girls in his life. While I might rate this collection a bit lower because the stories don't happen in places or situations that overlap with my life or interests, I am really taken by Williams' command of prose. The stories are told with a clear economy, an intuitive understanding of how to express the most with little frosting. Not all the stories hit the same, of course, so while "Three Strides to Thirty" felt like a throwaway to me and I'll not reread it, "Rounding the Bases" and "Section" were simply brilliant. I am sad at the passing of this fellow I'd never met, since I'd love to have future work of his to look forward to. A final word about the text itself merits mention since I frequently criticize small presses: Grand Canyon Press has done a fine job with the proofing, editing, and layout of this slim volume. It was a joy to hold and read, and they should be proud. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
The debut collection from award-winning short story writer Gregory D. Williams takes us back to the 1970s, a bygone era when parents didn't always know what their children were up to and pre-teen boys were becoming men. In stories about growing up in the dry heat of Phoenix, Arizona, a Little League player bobbles the ball with his first crush. In another story, two friends stake out the house of a neighborhood bully and play a role in a deadly accident. These adolescent boys see moral compromise - and their roles as husbands, fathers, and breadwinners - shimmering like a mirage on the horizon.Soon, the innocence of childhood recedes into the past. Grown-up life begins. During a practicum on breast-and-rectal exams, an overlooked lump on a sexy partner leaves a med student shaken. A doctor apprehends that the distance between pain-relief and addiction is shorter than he ever imagined. And a man propositioned at a local Starbucks discovers that even in middle age, the dry heat of love still burns.Stories about seniors touch on emotions at life's end. A widower, busted while honoring his wife's final wish, tells a white lie to escape arrest. A fisherman is startled by the appearance of a talking trout.In all these stories, the boy lives on inside the man. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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These stories are captivating, well conceived, skillfully written, and are taking their place among the best stories in my library.
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