| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780887392283 | | Publisher: Creative Arts Book Company | | Publish Date: 2/1/2000 | | Buy.com Sku: 30538333 | | Item#: R6J9VR | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.75H x 5.75L x 0.75T | | Pages: 190 |
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| | | Darkness fell. No cars were passing us. Several had stopped dead the in highway, carcasses mantled in snow. I crept around them, uncertain how far ahead the exit road was. I had no idea, but had to make him believe. The bitter chill inside the car mocked the heater's lilting chatter and Pap reeked of vulnerability. It was a father-sweat only a son can detect. Son-sweat he had smelled numerous times. Calling me into my boyhood room at night. Or when he snatched me out of a Lake Erie undertow, and pumped air into my chest .... But now I smelled his. Big time....the sweat inside...was stronger than woman odor, the odor of sex to which we were both addicted.... We were high on it and scared to death."
Annotation:
Many of the stories in this debut collection feature men and boys caught between their rural roots and the more cosmopolitan world beyond their hometowns: one recurring character can't shake the small-town quirks he fears will betray him as a yokel to his sophisticated Harvard pals; another character wows audiences in his hometown with his skills as a pianist but worries that he'll never play for an audience that can really appreciate his virtuosity.
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