Falling and Other Stories - Stoltzfus, Ben

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Résumé :
A novella and six short fictions, is by turn mythic and realistic, moving and wistful, innovative and traditional. It maps a wide geography of human emotions: lust, adventure, love, alienation, explicit violence and implicit passion. Ben Stoltzfus makes each character&mdash...

Biographie:
come vividly alive. In Falling you, the narrator, climb toward the summit with Juan, your friend, following flashbacks in the narrative trail. In The Bank, a father and son come to terms with a lifetime of estrangement. In Glamour Girl, a woman reminisces about her husbands, rich people, Joe Louis and happy days in the spotlight. In Scuba Queen, two college friends, now in their thirties, dive for abalone in the kelp beds of the Pacific Ocean where their rivalry begets a dangerous and miraculous denoument. Masks and Bergamasks is a love monologue, a silent conversation between a teacher and a student during a lecture on French Symbolist poetry. In Samantha&rsquo...

Sommaire:
a glamour girl, a scuba queen, a shaman, a mountain climber, a skier, a ball-court superstar, women in distress, even strangers&mdash...