Al Burrelli

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Short Story Treasures by Al Burrelli

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this aptly titled collection of short stories, the author offers his personal observations on the human condition as well as the "nuggets" of precious wisdom the reader might extract from them. The settings of these stories are varied and range from a cabin in the freezing northlands to a baronial palazzo. In compelling scenes of betrayal, despair, murderous rage, hallucination, and violence, the moral of these tales is implicit: humanity has lost its way, and Eden appears to be out of reach. Redemption beckons, however, in the form of love and acceptance and without limitations of age. While the emotional tenor of many of the stories is dark and forbidding, it is counterbalanced by the sheer joy of the stories that celebrate young love, belated love, and the good will of rescuers and Samaritans. Eden emerges triumphant in this collection through the author's belief that while humanity creates its own brand of evil, it is also capable of engendering its own "miracles."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 90
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781503517264
• Artikelnr.: 52553536

Autorenporträt

Alfonso Burrelli was born in New York to Italian immigrant parents who eventually settled on Long Island. He graduated from Hofstra College and held a Master's degree in the humanities from Stony Brook University and a Master's degree in Education from Columbia University. He taught English in the public schools of New York and Long Island for over twenty-five years. He wrote this collection of short stories in retirement during the last five years of his life. He was awarded a literary prize for his first short story, "The Bride Wore Red" ("Winning Writers") and was a frequently published contributor to the "The Easthampton Star," and to the "Letters to the Editor" pages of both Long Island's "Newsday" and "The New York Times." He was married to Louise Fumo Burrelli, Ph.D. (Columbia University, N.Y.) and lived on Long Island with their two children until his death in 2014 at age 81.