Mark Morganstern

Dancing with Dasein and Other Stories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this collection of fourteen stories---mostly set among working folks in the Hudson River Valley of New York---music, food, philosophy, and magic weave through tales that are by turns gritty, aching, and comical. Characters grapple with unfulfilled dreams in a dizzying, often alien culture. Meet a Bronx Italian Zen master with a baby and an ex-football-star partner...a young curator assigned to coddle an infamous avant-garde artist whose assistant threatens her marriage...a Homer scholar who disappears in a blizzard over a stone wall, never to be seen again...a failed graduate student who nearly gets paralyzed delivering a case of gourmet cat food to his Heidegger professor to settle a vague psychic debt...a reincarnating Ancient Egyptian chef who travels thousand of years from the banks of the Nile to a surf-crazed town in Southern California to open a bakery...and others. All are drawn with empathy and wry humor, observed through a sharp lens as they wrestle and waltz with the blunt challenge of being human---Dancing with Dasein. .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mindfast Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780692495759
• ISBN-10: 0692495754
• Artikelnr.: 58063551

Autorenporträt

Mark Morganstern left a budding music career behind when he realized he didn't want to play weddings in a cover band. He parlayed a long-term literary interest into an MA in Creative Writing from the City University of New York, subsequently subbing in a high school and booking music acts in his family cafe. These days, he writes, submits, files rejections, gets published. He believes in fiction.