β Scribed by Ron Carlson
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Prepare to be amused, moved, disturbed. These stories by a master of idiosyncrasy visit a world where wit has heft, charm has shadow, and human beings act out all the complicated nuances of love.In the title story, a young man waiting in the Hotel Eden discovers--as others have--that Eden is not a permanent domicile. In "Zanduce at Second," a baseball player turned killer-by-accident undergoes a surprising transformation. We root for escaped felon Ray ("A Note on the Type") as he carves his name on a culvert wall. We drive the sweltering summer streets of Phoenix as a nineteen-year-old narrator goes through an unsettling sexual awakening ("Oxygen"). In these and other stories, whether his characters are getting sabotaged by nightcaps or encountering nudists on a rafting trip, Carlson takes us to new places in a new way.
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Intro; Title Page; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgements; Madame Martin and I; All Souls; The Hotel Eden; Landline; A Community Garden; Olives, Endives and Mallow; The Builders; Roller Skates, a Snack, a Book; Crouching Woman (Camille Claudel); Monday Morning, Croissy-sur-Seine; Future Perfect; Horne
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