November Storm book
November Storm book
November Storm.cRobert Oldshue
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Author: Robert Oldshue
Page Count: 140 pages
Published Date: 30 Oct 2016
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Publication Country: Iowa, United States
Language: English
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9781609384517
Download Link: November Storm
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In each of the storIes in Robert Oldshue's debut collection, the characters want to be decent but fi nd that hard to defi ne. In the fi rst 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" off ers a benediction. A quadriplegic goes missing at a nursing home. Was she assumed? In the process of fi nding out, all are reminded that caring for others, however imperfectly-even laughably-is the only shot at assumption we have.
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November Storm.cRobert Oldshue
Author: Robert Oldshue
Page Count: 140 pages
Published Date: 30 Oct 2016
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Publication Country: Iowa, United States
Language: English
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9781609384517
Download Link: November Storm
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In each of the storIes in Robert Oldshue's debut collection, the characters want to be decent but fi nd that hard to defi ne. In the fi rst 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" off ers a benediction. A quadriplegic goes missing at a nursing home. Was she assumed? In the process of fi nding out, all are reminded that caring for others, however imperfectly-even laughably-is the only shot at assumption we have.
Read online November Storm Buy and read online November Storm Download November Storm for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook November Storm