Fincke Gary Fincke

Room of Rain (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The narratives throughout Gary Fincke s sixth collection of short stories contain newsworthy events that are chronicled secondhand: the shooting of a policeman, 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 accidently 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: West Virginia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 255
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781940425214
• Artikelnr.: 55120963

Autorenporträt

Gary Fincke's latest collection of poems, The Infinity Room, won the Wheelbarrow Books Prize for Established Poets (Michigan State, 2019). Winner of Poetry Magazine's Bess Hokin Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and Ohio State's Wheeler Prize, he has published fourteen collections of poetry. His fiction and nonfiction collections have won the Flannery O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction and the Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose. He recently retired after founding and then directing the Writers Institute at Susquehanna University for decades.