Brent Robison

Principle of Ultimate Indivisibility (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Subtlety ought to be on an endangered literary species list, but Brent Robison brilliantly makes the case for its essentiality in this exquisite collection of webbed stories. These stories argue that everything is a facet of the same jewel and we touch each other's lives in unfathomable ways. To read them is to heighten one's bond with strangers.
Djelloul Marbrook, award-winning poet/novelist, Far from Algiers, The Light Piercing Water Trilogy

Rich, layered images take us deep inside the lives of Robison's characters, their stories weaving together a tapestry as textured as it is beautiful. Brent Robison's stories are reminiscent of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio stories of ordinary people caught in the crosshairs of circumstance, sometimes of their own making, sometimes not. All of them heroic in their honest struggle to find meaning and ultimately love.... A gorgeous, timeless collection about longing.
Susan Richards, NY Times bestselling author, Chosen by a Horse, Saddled, Chosen Forever

Brent Robison's superbly crafted collection of short stories doesn't shy away from its central thesis that we are all cross-wired with each other in ways both obvious and finely nuanced. Some of these intersections are collisions of circumstance (think the movies Magnolia or Crash) that seem coincidental but really aren't. Others are the shared pains and longings and failings that identify us all as humans, but here again there's something larger and more ineffable at work linking characters in different stories. Buddhists, Jungians, and even quantum theorists would have a field day with the output of Robison's imagination.
Ned White, Moonbeam Award winning author
The Principle of Ultimate Indivisibility is a collection of linked short stories, and each one of them is a delight: a sparsely-written, surprising delight which illuminates unexpected corners of its characters' lives and in so doing, reveals their obsessions, loves and longings with ruthless clarity.
Jane Smith, The Self-Publishing Review

It's a feast of food for thought, a richly imagined reality that looks much like our own would if we could really see it. Robison has a lyrical and evocative style and a deep affection for human foibles, and wandering through the maze he has woven is oddly intoxicating.
Anne Pyburn Craig, Chronogram magazine

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Distributed via Smashwords
• Seitenzahl: 239
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780971890879
• Artikelnr.: 45440579

Autorenporträt

I live in the Catskill Mountains of New York. My writing has appeared in a dozen print and online literary journals, as well as hundreds of corporate training and marketing publications. My stories have won the Literal Latte Short Short Award, the Chronogram Short Fiction Contest, a Fiction Fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, and a Pushcart Prize nomination. I am also the publisher and editor of the Hudson Valley regional literary annual, Prima Materia.

THE PRINCIPLE OF ULTIMATE INDIVISIBILITY, A Web of Stories, is available in trade paperback edition from booksellers everywhere. It is enhanced by more than a dozen cool abstract drawings by Wendy Drolma.

REVIEWS
See this recent review: https://dactylreview.com/2019/06/25/the-principle-of-ultimate-indivisibility-a-web-of-stories-by-brent-robison/

Other links are on my blog at http://ultimate-indivisibility.com

Moonbeam Award winning author Ned White says: "Brent Robison's superbly crafted collection of short stories doesn't shy away from its central thesis - that we are all crosswired with each other in ways both obvious and finely nuanced.... Buddhists, Jungians, and even quantum theorists would have a field day with the output of Robison's imagination."

In the October Chronogram Magazine, Anne Pyburn manages to capture the essence of my book in three paragraphs that are so eloquent I'm hard-pressed to choose the best blurb... how about "a feast of food for thought, a richly imagined reality that looks much like our own world if we could really see it."

Online at POD People, Cheryl Anne Gardner gives a really thoughtful, in-depth examination of the themes (and their alternates) that she sees at work in the stories and the book as a whole. I'm immensely grateful for this kind of close reading and generous analysis, made even better by the fact that hers is all volunteer labor. Again, so difficult to choose a few words from so many insightful comments; here's one: "...the collection really begged the question: Hope? Is it really genuine or is it something we invent as a way to justify our acceptance..."

At the website Self-Publishing Review, whose mission is to help bring self-published literature to a more respected position in the minds of readers and the industry, editor Henry Baum closes his review with this: "Overall, it's a collection of very strong writing - thoughtful, full of vivid imagery, sorrowful at time...