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A Working Man’s Apocrypha: Short Stories

William Luvaas

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Description:Cutting-edge fiction that breathes life into unlikely charactersIn these unforgettable stories, William Luvaas depicts the struggles of everyday people facing situations far from the ordinary. Through tales set largely in Southern California’s Inland Empire, Luvaas weaves magic and absurdity around characters caught between apocalypse and heartbreak. Deftly spinning haunting plots, he conveys the joys and misfortunes of folks who confront trauma or loss and find unexpected opportunities for survival.Here is nature run amok: A tornado whirls away a man’s wife and daughter, but they return midway into his ensuing romantic affair. Flood survivors in California’s coastal range build makeshift arks in anticipation of the world’s watery end. Other stories fathom relationships, as a diabetic’s suicide in the title story renews a cycle of unrequited love, or aging twins reconcile with the loss of their childhood intimacy. All come to grips with contemporary problems: poverty, disease, or powerlessness in the face of economic inequality, religious fanaticism, and corporate greed.Common to all of these tales is a sense of something longed for...just out of reach. Characters are tested, often in unexpected ways, and generally arrive at some epiphany about themselves and the world they inhabit. Death is regularly a presence here, literally or figuratively, and hyperbole a common refrain, suggesting that inexplicable and wondrous forces are at work behind human fate.Whether writing from the point of view of a semiliterate handyman or an elderly woman facing death on a cold night, Luvaas delivers stories, characters, and voices that are the stuff of cutting-edge fiction. A Working Man’s Apocrypha is masterful storytelling that will leave readers breathless. “In these brilliant stories, many set in…the Inland Empire (‘Mount San Gorgonio to the north, the San Jacintos due east, fractured, faceted with severe late afternoon light’), laws of nature are often broken. Floods, tornadoes and other disasters inspire varied means of survival; death sparks new relationships. A brother and sister, twins, remember how they drifted apart. An artist recalls the practical wisdom of a man who worked for her: ‘Nayls go in coffee cans” and “Don’t trust brite moonlyt nun thatl mess you up evrah time you don’t wach yoresef. It cud make a dam dum crippuled up dibettuck want to go dansing.’” Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review“Luvaas’s stories inform us of mortal wounds while fascinating us with the instruments of character and fate that inflict them. An excellent read.” - WILLIAM PITT ROOT, author of The Storm and Other Poems“A master of metaphor, of character and imagination, Luvaas takes the reader on odysseys every bit as compelling as those of Gabriel Garcia Marquez or J.M. Coetzee. I was enchanted and moved by these stories, some of which are bound to become classics.” - PAMELA USCHUK, author of Without Birds, Without Flowers, Without Trees and One-Legged Dancer“An absorbing collection by a writer to keep your eye on.” - EDITH PEARLMAN, author of Love among the Greats and How to Fall“In these fierce and eloquent stories, William Luvaas turns ordinary situations into extraordinary and haunting encounters that you won’t soon forget.” - ALAN DAVIS, author of Alone with the Owl “Luvaas manages to make such swerving and impossible lives feel utterly true and real and maybe–incredibly–even normal. - Linda Swanson-Davies, Co-Editor Glimmer Train“In this short story collection, tornados real and metaphorical rip through the lives of not-so-ordinary people, flinging them into unexpected intimacies and tearing away identities once thought airtight. Luvaas’ poetic prose is powerful as the Santa Ana winds, yet delicate enough to limn the silences that speak louder than words, as in the title story, where the bond between a widow and her dying handyman is too profound to risk actual words of love.” - Jendi Reiter, posted on Winning Writers Website“Luvaas truly gets how connected people can be, how a person’s emotions are tied inextricably to their intimates, whether lovers, friends or family; how people joust, banter, joke and tease, pushing and pulling, claiming their space....Luvaas is determined to grant each character their full humanity, their full dignity, even when their circumstances would make most of us turn away from the pain and struggle... in these brilliant, funny, heart-breaking stories.” - Glenn Raucher, Introduction to The Writers Voice reading in New York “Luvaas’s poetic prose is magic, his story “Rain” drew me immediately in, before the first drop fell, and then it held me captive to the chilling end. This is writing at its best!” - Virginia Howard, Editor of Thema “William Luvaas shows a sophistication and honesty in his writing that is both rare and engag...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Working Man’s Apocrypha: Short Stories. To get started finding A Working Man’s Apocrypha: Short Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Cutting-edge fiction that breathes life into unlikely charactersIn these unforgettable stories, William Luvaas depicts the struggles of everyday people facing situations far from the ordinary. Through tales set largely in Southern California’s Inland Empire, Luvaas weaves magic and absurdity around characters caught between apocalypse and heartbreak. Deftly spinning haunting plots, he conveys the joys and misfortunes of folks who confront trauma or loss and find unexpected opportunities for survival.Here is nature run amok: A tornado whirls away a man’s wife and daughter, but they return midway into his ensuing romantic affair. Flood survivors in California’s coastal range build makeshift arks in anticipation of the world’s watery end. Other stories fathom relationships, as a diabetic’s suicide in the title story renews a cycle of unrequited love, or aging twins reconcile with the loss of their childhood intimacy. All come to grips with contemporary problems: poverty, disease, or powerlessness in the face of economic inequality, religious fanaticism, and corporate greed.Common to all of these tales is a sense of something longed for...just out of reach. Characters are tested, often in unexpected ways, and generally arrive at some epiphany about themselves and the world they inhabit. Death is regularly a presence here, literally or figuratively, and hyperbole a common refrain, suggesting that inexplicable and wondrous forces are at work behind human fate.Whether writing from the point of view of a semiliterate handyman or an elderly woman facing death on a cold night, Luvaas delivers stories, characters, and voices that are the stuff of cutting-edge fiction. A Working Man’s Apocrypha is masterful storytelling that will leave readers breathless. “In these brilliant stories, many set in…the Inland Empire (‘Mount San Gorgonio to the north, the San Jacintos due east, fractured, faceted with severe late afternoon light’), laws of nature are often broken. Floods, tornadoes and other disasters inspire varied means of survival; death sparks new relationships. A brother and sister, twins, remember how they drifted apart. An artist recalls the practical wisdom of a man who worked for her: ‘Nayls go in coffee cans” and “Don’t trust brite moonlyt nun thatl mess you up evrah time you don’t wach yoresef. It cud make a dam dum crippuled up dibettuck want to go dansing.’” Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review“Luvaas’s stories inform us of mortal wounds while fascinating us with the instruments of character and fate that inflict them. An excellent read.” - WILLIAM PITT ROOT, author of The Storm and Other Poems“A master of metaphor, of character and imagination, Luvaas takes the reader on odysseys every bit as compelling as those of Gabriel Garcia Marquez or J.M. Coetzee. I was enchanted and moved by these stories, some of which are bound to become classics.” - PAMELA USCHUK, author of Without Birds, Without Flowers, Without Trees and One-Legged Dancer“An absorbing collection by a writer to keep your eye on.” - EDITH PEARLMAN, author of Love among the Greats and How to Fall“In these fierce and eloquent stories, William Luvaas turns ordinary situations into extraordinary and haunting encounters that you won’t soon forget.” - ALAN DAVIS, author of Alone with the Owl “Luvaas manages to make such swerving and impossible lives feel utterly true and real and maybe–incredibly–even normal. - Linda Swanson-Davies, Co-Editor Glimmer Train“In this short story collection, tornados real and metaphorical rip through the lives of not-so-ordinary people, flinging them into unexpected intimacies and tearing away identities once thought airtight. Luvaas’ poetic prose is powerful as the Santa Ana winds, yet delicate enough to limn the silences that speak louder than words, as in the title story, where the bond between a widow and her dying handyman is too profound to risk actual words of love.” - Jendi Reiter, posted on Winning Writers Website“Luvaas truly gets how connected people can be, how a person’s emotions are tied inextricably to their intimates, whether lovers, friends or family; how people joust, banter, joke and tease, pushing and pulling, claiming their space....Luvaas is determined to grant each character their full humanity, their full dignity, even when their circumstances would make most of us turn away from the pain and struggle... in these brilliant, funny, heart-breaking stories.” - Glenn Raucher, Introduction to The Writers Voice reading in New York “Luvaas’s poetic prose is magic, his story “Rain” drew me immediately in, before the first drop fell, and then it held me captive to the chilling end. This is writing at its best!” - Virginia Howard, Editor of Thema “William Luvaas shows a sophistication and honesty in his writing that is both rare and engag...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Working Man’s Apocrypha: Short Stories. To get started finding A Working Man’s Apocrypha: Short Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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