Gary Fincke

Broschiertes Buch

Room of Rain

Beschreibung

The narratives throughout Gary Fincke's sixth collection of short stories contains newsworthy events that are chronicled secondhand: the shooting of a policemen, the murder of a house flipper, the firing of a teacher for punching a violent student, the accidental drowning of a gay man in a flood, and a fire somewhat accidentally set by a juvenile smoker in a school. Despite these surprising events, the narrator of each story is an ordinary person caught up in the action but preoccupied by other things, whether zombie movies, collecting unusual words, the oddity of other people's sexual habits, or what to do in retirement. These shocking incidents become both central and peripheral to the narrative, as Fincke portrays the fluctuating emotions and self-protective reflections of fathers, sons, and husbands, creating a world where individuals rarely understand each other yet still arrive at moments of compassion, tolerance, perseverance, and familial love.

Autor

Gary Fincke's poetry collections have won prizes from Ohio State, Arkansas, Michigan State, Stephen F. Austin, and Jacar Press. Individual poems have received the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry, been reprinted twice by Harper's, and been selected for a Pushcart Prize. His books in other genres have won the Flannery O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction, the Elixir Press Fiction Prize, and the 2017 Robert C. Jones Prize for Nonfiction. Since 1984, he has published forty books of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, including a novel-in-stories How Blasphemy Sounds to God and the memoir Amp'd: A Father's Backstage Pass, an account of immersing himself in his younger son's life as the lead guitarist of the platinum-selling rock band Breaking Benjamin. He is the Emeritus Charles Degenstein Professor of Creative Writing at Susquehanna University, where he founded and then directed, for more than twenty years, the Writers Institute and the nationally recognized undergraduate creative writing major.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vandalia Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9781940425207
• ISBN-10: 1940425204
• Artikelnr.: 42471157