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Shadow Traffic
Richard Burgin
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Description for Shadow Traffic
Hardback. A collection of stories that features: "Memorial Day", "Memo and Oblivion" and "The Interview". In "Memorial Day", an aging man at a public swimming pool recalls a brief but momentous affair he had with a young British woman in London thirty years ago and the paradoxical role his recently deceased father played in it. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 168 x 25. Weight in Grams: 460.
The New York Times Book Review has praised Richard Burgin's stories as "eerily funny...dexterous...too haunting to be easily forgotten," while the Philadelphia Inquirer calls him "one of America's most distinctive storytellers...no one of his generation reports the contemporary war between the sexes with more devastating wit and accuracy." Now, in Shadow Traffic, his seventh collection of stories, five-time Pushcart Prize winner Richard Burgin gives us his most incisive, witty, and daring collection to date as he explores the mysteries of love and identity, ambition and crime, and our ceaseless, if ambivalent, quest for truth. In "Memorial Day," ... Read more
The New York Times Book Review has praised Richard Burgin's stories as "eerily funny...dexterous...too haunting to be easily forgotten," while the Philadelphia Inquirer calls him "one of America's most distinctive storytellers...no one of his generation reports the contemporary war between the sexes with more devastating wit and accuracy." Now, in Shadow Traffic, his seventh collection of stories, five-time Pushcart Prize winner Richard Burgin gives us his most incisive, witty, and daring collection to date as he explores the mysteries of love and identity, ambition and crime, and our ceaseless, if ambivalent, quest for truth. In "Memorial Day," ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421402734
SKU
V9781421402734
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About Richard Burgin
Richard Burgin-teacher, critic, editor, and composer-is best known for his short fiction. He is the author of fifteen books, including Fear of Blue Skies, The Spirit Returns, and The Conference on Beautiful Moments, all published by Johns Hopkins . He is founder and editor of the award-winning literary journal Boulevard and a professor of communication and ... Read more
Reviews for Shadow Traffic
"A writer at once elegant and disturbing, Burgin is among our finest artists of love at its most desperate." (Chicago Tribune)"