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Like a Flower in the Field
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $13.99
ISBN13: 9781532022975
Publisher: Iuniverse Inc
Published: May 3 2017
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A strong sense of place and its impact on our lives runs through this collection of twenty stories and two one-act plays.
Spooner begins with Chasin' the Bird, a story of brotherly love and near tragedy set in San Francisco, the music of an aged street performer providing the soundtrack. In a Sacramento suburb, And Spare Them Not is a tale of vengeance for the murder of a ten-year-old girl. In the mythical town of Millers Forge, Fireworks for Mickey tells of a family forced to deal with death and unresolved issues from the past. Spooner closes with Moral Imperative, a story of moral and ethical choices set in Orange County, California, fireworks from Disneyland booming in the distance.
Places leave an indelible mark on our lives, but do we leave a mark on the places we've been? This is the central question in C. W. Spooner's second collection of short stories.
Aging, wisdom, remorse, poignancy, what it means to be a man in a changing world--it's all there in twenty-two unforgettable stories, told with elegance and sensitivity. I picked up the book on a sunny morning, looking for a brief diversion, and didn't put it down until I'd finished (Casey Dorman, editor, Lost Coast Review, author of I, Carlos, Finding Martin Bloom, and Murder in Nirvana).
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