Last stands: stories
"In a distinguished career that has yielded four novels, ten story collections, and a volume of poetry, Gordon Weaver has maintained a distinctive literary voice that, despite its always recognizable presence, never fails to surprise longtime readers of his work. His best stories somehow manage to be witty and deadly serious at the same time. Last Stands presents people at crucial moments in their lives, the moments in which ultimate challenges are confronted, ultimate questions are asked, and …
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- Full title :Last stands : stories / by Gordon Weaver.
Summary
"In a distinguished career that has yielded four novels, ten story collections, and a volume of poetry, Gordon Weaver has maintained a distinctive literary voice that, despite its always recognizable presence, never fails to surprise longtime readers of his work. His best stories somehow manage to be witty and deadly serious at the same time. Last Stands presents people at crucial moments in their lives, the moments in which ultimate challenges are confronted, ultimate questions are asked, and definitive judgments are made. Weaver's characters may flounder, and fail, but they are redeemed by their courage and their honesty. A hired assassin ponders his self-worth, a bartender takes his only chance for worldly success, a man buries his mother, another talks with the dead, yet another attends his high school reunion determined on vindication, and a war-weary Vietnam vet finds a place he can call home. These are stories that do not shun the darker side of Weaver's characters, but seek the illumination of the insights needed to make their lives meaningful, if only to themselves."--Publishers website.
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- Publication Date:©2004.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Missouri Press
- Place of Publication:Columbia
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2004.
The Physical Object
- Description:170 pages ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0826215211, 9780826215215
- oclc:ocm53469461
- LC Classification:PS3573.E17
- Dewey Decimal:813/.54
Table of Contents
Looking for the lost Eden -- A dialogue -- The white elephant -- Dirt -- Psychic friends -- The emancipation of Hoytie Rademacher -- And what should I do in Illyria? -- Elder's revenge -- Learst's last stand.
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