Gordon Weaver, Author University of Missouri Press $19.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8262-1113-2
Weaver (Men Who Would Be Good; The Way We Know in Dreams) has earned himself a respectable niche in the field of finely wrought literary fiction, and his stories rarely miss their mark. This collection of 11 entries ranges widely: tales like ""Whiske
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Gordon Weaver, Author University of Missouri Press $19.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8262-1291-7
Although frequently on target in their criticism of middle-class complacency, these 11 stories about men bewildered by contemporary mores often take their critiques too far. Weaver (The Way We Know in Dreams) dwells on humankind at its most...
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Gordon Weaver, Author Another Chicago Press $9.94 (0p) ISBN 978-0-929968-16-2
In each of this collection's six short stories, Weaver ( The Eight Corners of the World ) paints the one-dimensional picture of a distant, repressed middle-aged man undergoing a crisis for which no one--including the reader--has any sympathy. The...
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Gordon Weaver, Author Louisiana State University Press $15.95 (130p) ISBN 978-0-8071-1291-5
The title of the three novellas gathered here is drawn from a poem by Wallace Stevens that addresses Weaver's guiding theme: that language delineates our world. The first story, ""Ah Art, Ah Life,'' focuses on the innocent perceptivity of a 10-year-o
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Gordon Weaver, Author Chelsea Green Publishing Company $19.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-930031-16-9
Yoshinori Yamaguchi, the fast-talking hero of this episodic novel by the author of Count a Lonely Cadence , speaks in four tongueshis native Japanese, proper English, hipster slang and pidgin Yiddishand has at least as many identities. As teenaged...
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Gordon Weaver, Author University of Missouri Press $26.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8262-0931-3
In his seventh short fiction collection, Weaver ( Men Who Would Be Good ) presents characters whose cries are so human, raw and mordant, the reader forgets the fiction and is delivered inside the experience. Few writers concern themselves so...
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