Circumnavigation |
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Author:
| Lattimore, Steve |
ISBN: | 978-0-395-85407-5 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1997 |
Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $22.00 |
Book Description:
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In a remarkably fluid collection of stories, Steve Lattimore captures the underside of contemporary western America. Mapped against a landscape of disarray, where both the physical and the emotional run turbulent courses, Lattimore's stories are about heroic rescues. His characters - alienated, destitute, guided by faith or hunches - stand on the brink of revelation, stumbling toward redemption. In the title story, an odd, precocious child is left in the care of a man who refuses to...
More DescriptionIn a remarkably fluid collection of stories, Steve Lattimore captures the underside of contemporary western America. Mapped against a landscape of disarray, where both the physical and the emotional run turbulent courses, Lattimore's stories are about heroic rescues. His characters - alienated, destitute, guided by faith or hunches - stand on the brink of revelation, stumbling toward redemption. In the title story, an odd, precocious child is left in the care of a man who refuses to claim responsibility even for himself. Not until his codependent ex-wife takes an interest in the boy does he begin to assume control over his life. In "Separate States," a bitter young girl sorts through her convoluted parentage and her own anger to find that home is where the heart is. "Between Angels" follows Abe, Lou, and Mookie in a seriocomic search for God involving the Ark of the Covenant and a full-body shave and reaching a shocking conclusion within the confines of an LA warehouse.