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Condition
Like New: A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is ...
ISBN
9781927409435
Book Title
Times Square and Other Stories
Item Length
9 in
Publisher
Able Muse Press
Publication Year
2015
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.5 in
Author
William Baer
Genre
Fiction
Topic
General
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
11 Oz
Number of Pages
218 Pages

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Fiction. Short Stories. In William Baer's TIMES SQUARE AND OTHER STORIES, there are everyday characters walking extraordinary paths for love; there are smart, skillful characters struggling to reconcile their viewpoints and convictions with the status quo in fields such as art, education, the cinema and religious doctrine. There is baseball and the story of the skills, training and ethics of pitching in the big leagues. And there is war and an enemy invasion juxtaposed with a do-or-die chess game. The stories take us coast to coast from New York to LA, away to South America, and overseas to Eastern and Western Europe. This is a fun-filled, fact-filled collection that smoothly melds scholarship with the everyday for unique, fresh, and highly intelligent stories, which are also highly entertaining. How wonderful to come across such a serious collection of short stories Not 'serious' as in boring and tendentious; but serious as in grown- up, broadminded, large-hearted, sharply observed, and dryly, obliquely funny. Bill Baer's fiction kicks ass.--Pinckney Benedict As elegantly written as they are inventive, the short stories in TIMES SQUARE AND OTHER STORIES engage the reader all the way from the title piece, an ambitious tale that draws upon art, love, and the complex beauty of the human narrative, through eight other works that touch upon the timeless questions of what it means to create and to act, to be and to pretend. Baer's collection achieves that Horatian goal so sorely lacking in much of contemporary fiction--informing while delighting at the same time. The obligation to craft is taken very seriously in these pages, but the effort that undoubtedly went into their composition could easily be overlooked due to the skill with which they are rendered, and the degree to which they are enjoyed.--A.G. Harmon TIMES SQUARE AND OTHER STORIES, William Baer's twice-measured fictions, channel the reflecting reflections of James and Borges back into our self-conscious consciousness. Like the four-story signs plastering the 'real' Times Square, these signs sing themselves, maps as detailed as the things they represent. These fictions resuscitate Poe's unities of effects, breathing life back into the simulacrum of life. I loved this book; it can't help but blurb itself --Michael Martone

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Able Muse Press
ISBN-10
1927409438
ISBN-13
9781927409435
eBay Product ID (ePID)
246305141

Product Key Features

Book Title
Times Square and Other Stories
Author
William Baer
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
218 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
11 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3552.A3324a6 2015
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2014-950256
Dewey Decimal
813.5
Dewey Edition
23

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