University of Iowa Press, 1997 Paper: 978-1-58729-813-4 | Cloth: 978-0-87745-605-6 | eISBN: 978-1-58729-000-8 Library of Congress Classification PS3551.B262W48 1997 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Abbott's community is pure Americana, a wild world inhabited by gloriously street-smart smartasses: overeducated, underemployed men mourning for the confident women who have left them—or have they?—but knowing that equally confident women are just around the corner—or are they? His urgent, maximalist style allows their exhilarating voices to be heard and remembered.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Lee Abbott is Humanities Distinguished Professor in English at Ohio State University. His latest collection, All Things, All at Once: New and Selected Stories, was published in 2006.
REVIEWS
“Abbott writes like a fallen angel. These are wild, vibrant stories, caustic and sardonic, wildly funny and bitter as grief, full of passion and perfidy. As his characters crash through burnt-over landscapes and tune into 'the talk talked by worms,' they bring us an odd kind of hope.”—Andrea Barrett
"Abbott writes about the singular moments that change our lives forever and leave us, all too often, standing knee-deep in the wreckage we've come from. His is a universe on the verge of chaos, just barely held together by the curved space of language and love. These are stories that matter, folks, matter a great deal indeed. Wet Places at Noon is subversive and compassionate. It will remind you why you started reading stories in the first place: to be enchanted, to live for a while in a world more vivid and compelling than the one you come from."—John Dufresne
“Lee Abbott is a chief reason we go to the short story for its portrayal of the unannounced life. He celebrates the immensity in each character's moment, and he captures the gorgeous, sassy, and sometimes desperately joyous music with which we enchant ourselves. Wet Places at Noon is a muscular, crafty, and fond collection by a writer who matters enormously.”—Frederick Busch
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
The Way Sin Is Said in Wonderland
On Tuesday Nothing, on Wednesday Walls
A Man Bearing Snow
The Human Use of Inhuman Beings
How One Becomes the Other
As Fate Would Have It
A Creature out of Palestine
The Talk Talked between Worms
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University of Iowa Press, 1997 Paper: 978-1-58729-813-4 Cloth: 978-0-87745-605-6 eISBN: 978-1-58729-000-8
Abbott's community is pure Americana, a wild world inhabited by gloriously street-smart smartasses: overeducated, underemployed men mourning for the confident women who have left them—or have they?—but knowing that equally confident women are just around the corner—or are they? His urgent, maximalist style allows their exhilarating voices to be heard and remembered.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Lee Abbott is Humanities Distinguished Professor in English at Ohio State University. His latest collection, All Things, All at Once: New and Selected Stories, was published in 2006.
REVIEWS
“Abbott writes like a fallen angel. These are wild, vibrant stories, caustic and sardonic, wildly funny and bitter as grief, full of passion and perfidy. As his characters crash through burnt-over landscapes and tune into 'the talk talked by worms,' they bring us an odd kind of hope.”—Andrea Barrett
"Abbott writes about the singular moments that change our lives forever and leave us, all too often, standing knee-deep in the wreckage we've come from. His is a universe on the verge of chaos, just barely held together by the curved space of language and love. These are stories that matter, folks, matter a great deal indeed. Wet Places at Noon is subversive and compassionate. It will remind you why you started reading stories in the first place: to be enchanted, to live for a while in a world more vivid and compelling than the one you come from."—John Dufresne
“Lee Abbott is a chief reason we go to the short story for its portrayal of the unannounced life. He celebrates the immensity in each character's moment, and he captures the gorgeous, sassy, and sometimes desperately joyous music with which we enchant ourselves. Wet Places at Noon is a muscular, crafty, and fond collection by a writer who matters enormously.”—Frederick Busch
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
The Way Sin Is Said in Wonderland
On Tuesday Nothing, on Wednesday Walls
A Man Bearing Snow
The Human Use of Inhuman Beings
How One Becomes the Other
As Fate Would Have It
A Creature out of Palestine
The Talk Talked between Worms
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