What burns: stories

✍ Scribed by Dale Peck

• Book ID: 100572003
• Publisher: Soho Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 113 KB
• Edition: PB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York, NY
• ISBN: 1641290838

✦ Synopsis

The first collection of short fiction from Lambda Award -winning novelist Dale Peck spans twenty-five years of writing, including two O. Henry award-winners and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize

The stories in What Burns examine the extremes of desire against a backdrop of family, class, and mortality.
In "Bliss," a young man befriends the convicted felon who murdered his mother when he was only a child. In "Not Even Camping Is Like Camping Anymore," a teenage boy fends off the advances of a five-year-old his mother babysits. And in "Dues," a man discovers that everything he owns is borrowed from someone else--including his time on earth.
Walking the tightrope between tenderness and violence that has defined Peck's work since the publication of his first novel, Martin and John , through his most recent, Night Soil , What Burns reveals Peck's mastery of the short form.

✦ Subjects

Families -- Fiction