Few writers can match Lewis Buzbee at capturing the American family disrupted by challenges from the outside world, or from within. These are powerful, moving stories of such families. Even when life... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Cool, smoothly rendered stories involving characters with ties to NoCal whose middle class veneer hides true emotional journey. Like Cheever, the characters are rendered real on the surface, but swim in the river of their heart. Like Carver in the seamless pacing and ease with tragedy. A collection in the tradition of the great storytellers.
Subtle Prose that Spans Continents and Touches Hearts
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
What's not to love about this story collection? Buzbee's prose resonates in that Carver way where the protagonists never quite understand what's bugging them, but the reader knows, making the conflicts all the more compelling. A study in subtlety.
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