THE SECRET GOLDFISH
David Means, . . HarperCollins/Fourth Estate, $22.95 (211pp) ISBN 978-0-00-716489-9
The characters in this imaginative and penetrating story collection—a man hounded by lightning strikes, a driver blown off the Mackinac bridge, a pianist whose fingers stop working, a woman who slaughters her boyfriend after ambiguous consultations with Jesus and the devil, a bog man roused from his shallow grave—are beset by bolts from the blue. Sometimes the victims and sometimes the perpetrators of calamity, they struggle to extract meaning—and the occasional glimpses of grace and beauty—from the chaos and brutality that disrupt their lives. Means, author of the acclaimed story collection
Reviewed on: 07/05/2004
Genre: Fiction
Paperback - 224 pages - 978-0-00-716490-5