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Relative Strangers: Short Stories

Margaret Hermes

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Description:RELATIVE STRANGERS was chosen by celebrated author Jill McCorkle to receive the Doris Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman. In McCorkle’s words: “Relative Strangers is a stunning collection of stories. Every single story is vivid and memorable, and yet, equally powerful is the collective thematic effect. So many of these characters are strangers within their own families and their own lives – people thought to be dead are resurrected and another's survival is akin to death. Change, loss, alienation; it’s all here. But so is humor and compassion and a fresh spin on the way people deal with the most vulnerable aspects of life. The range in vision is also powerful as we view – in one story – the adult world through the eyes of an adolescent who senses in his mother’s tremor ‘an earthquake unsettling my world’ and then just as easily we view life from the other end of the spectrum as characters look back on the change and loss and choices that shaped everything in life that followed. This movement between innocence and experience is constant as is the weighing of love against passion and lust. Margaret Hermes is a wonderful writer and this is a moving and powerful collection.” Acclaimed novelist and screenwriter Sarah Bird, final judge of the Balcones Fiction Prize, asked that Margaret Hermes receive a special second-place award for her story collection and its “lightning strikes of illumination.” Typically, only the finalists and one winner are announced. Bird said of the book, “Hermes examines the pivot points in lives just beginning and those viewed retrospectively with longing and regret. Innocence and experience battle as the vibrantly alive characters pick their way through a world that, in lesser hands, would be humdrum. Hermes makes us see again that each ordinary day is a minefield filled with choices that, sometimes, detonate decades later.”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 Relative Strangers: Short Stories. To get started finding Relative Strangers: Short Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 2012

ISBN: 0932112625

Description: RELATIVE STRANGERS was chosen by celebrated author Jill McCorkle to receive the Doris Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman. In McCorkle’s words: “Relative Strangers is a stunning collection of stories. Every single story is vivid and memorable, and yet, equally powerful is the collective thematic effect. So many of these characters are strangers within their own families and their own lives – people thought to be dead are resurrected and another's survival is akin to death. Change, loss, alienation; it’s all here. But so is humor and compassion and a fresh spin on the way people deal with the most vulnerable aspects of life. The range in vision is also powerful as we view – in one story – the adult world through the eyes of an adolescent who senses in his mother’s tremor ‘an earthquake unsettling my world’ and then just as easily we view life from the other end of the spectrum as characters look back on the change and loss and choices that shaped everything in life that followed. This movement between innocence and experience is constant as is the weighing of love against passion and lust. Margaret Hermes is a wonderful writer and this is a moving and powerful collection.” Acclaimed novelist and screenwriter Sarah Bird, final judge of the Balcones Fiction Prize, asked that Margaret Hermes receive a special second-place award for her story collection and its “lightning strikes of illumination.” Typically, only the finalists and one winner are announced. Bird said of the book, “Hermes examines the pivot points in lives just beginning and those viewed retrospectively with longing and regret. Innocence and experience battle as the vibrantly alive characters pick their way through a world that, in lesser hands, would be humdrum. Hermes makes us see again that each ordinary day is a minefield filled with choices that, sometimes, detonate decades later.”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 Relative Strangers: Short Stories. To get started finding Relative Strangers: Short Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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