A Marriage of Convenience: Stories - Softcover

Plattner, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1886157782 ISBN 13: 9781886157781

Verlag: BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2011

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In Andrew Plattner's new story collection, A Marriage of Convenience, characters try to improve their odds, on the racetrack and in life. In “Runaway,” teenager Hawley Bolton longs to run away from his wealthy home to join racetrackers like Helen, who tells him, “remember something good always happens at the racetrack...You just gotta hang around long enough for luck to find you.” In “More Than a Hunch,” the narrator has a tip he is sure will help his former girlfriend and her grown son if they would only listen. But in every story, whether on the track or anywhere else, characters do more than hanging around waiting for luck—they do everything they can to find it.

Nota de la solapa:

“Plattner's stories always amaze me with delicacy, introspection, precision, observation, and profound empathy. A Marriage of Convenience is a masterful performance first to last.” —Frederick Barthelme “A brilliant collection of short stories, honest, wise and full of warmth.” —Sefi Atta “The typical action of Plattner's best stories concerns the seedy world of horse racing. The scene of that action is naturally the race track, usually a small track in a dying town, often a steel town... This milieu is as natural to Andrew Plattner as the Catholic Church and its priests were to J. F. Powers and the agrarian world of Georgia to Flannery O'Connor... We follow the velleities and vicissitudes of [Plattner's] beleaguered souls with fascination and pleasure.” —George Core, from the Foreword

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• Verlag: BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1886157782
• ISBN 13: 9781886157781
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 277