Other Resort Cities: Stories

✍ Scribed by Goldberg, Tod

• Book ID: 107818130
• Publisher: Dzanc Books
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 147 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780982631881

✦ Synopsis

"Tod Goldberg's stories are not like faceted jewels. They are like glinting barbed wire, actually, roped across the field where you are reading, racing, wondering what's next, and then pierced with longing, regret, or revelation. His new collection kept me reading like that -- racing to find out what would happen next to these people only Tod Goldberg could create." --Susan Straight

"Tod Goldberg is a gifted writer, a surveyor of the soul, and Other Resort Cities is powerful fiction. He catches his characters at moments of great stress, then reveals their depths to us with compelling insight and great empathy. He sure as hell knows the details that convince. These are inventive and fresh stories that might have been merely clever in lesser hands, but Goldberg's talent and compassion extends dignity even to the most fucked-up and misbegotten lives." --Daniel Woodrell

"This is an excellent, compulsively readable...