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The Temple of Air: Stories

✍ Scribed by Patricia Ann McNair

Book ID: 110667914
Publisher: Elephant Rock Productions, Inc.
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 358 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780984670017
ASIN: B005XBULK0

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✦ Synopsis

Finalist for the CWA Book Award: Traditional Fiction
Winner of the 2012 Devil's Kitchen Prose Readers Award

Linking the lives and tales of a place and its people through tragedy and consequence, blind faith and redemption, this collection of finely tuned short stories spans three decades to present a portrait of working class Americans. From babysitter and bus ticket salesman to construction worker and cult leader, the residents of New Hope--whose lives intersect after a tragic accident during a summer carnival--chase dreams and suffer disappointment against the subtle backdrop of a Midwestern landscape. The stories are unapologetic yet magical, bringing to life the daily struggle under the weight of war, natural disaster, illness, grief, and greed, even as the residents enjoy the comforts of solace, friendship, sex, love, ice cream, and the comics found wrapped around bubblegum.

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