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The Clouds in Memphis - Stories and Novellas (Hardcover)
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The Clouds in Memphis - Stories and Novellas (Hardcover)
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The late Raymond Carver wrote of Matty's Heart, C. J. Hribal's
first book, our literature is healthier, and wiser with the
publication of this collection of short fiction. Commenting on the
same volume, Anne Tyler wrote, some of these pieces are real
masterpieces. Now Hribal is back with a new collection that charts
both the recesses of the human heart and the resiliency of the
human spirit. In three novellas and two short stories, Hribal
traces the arcs of emotion and action that can follow on the heels
of calamity. In the title novella, a divorced woman whose oldest
son is hit and killed by a reckless driver struggles to come to
terms with both her grief and the wreckage of her life since her
marriage ended. In War Babies, the sister of a woman killed in what
may or may not have been an industrial accident tries to imagine
the circumstances leading up to her sister's death, believing that
in knowledge there can be solace. A different tack is taken by the
central character in Consent, a real estate developer who has to
deal with a drowning that occurs in his newest subdivision: his
reconstruction of the event carries him into dangerous moral
territory. But not all the territory here is dangerous. The novella
And That's the Name of That Tune features a narrator who recalls
his father's escapades in a bar when the son was his seven-year-old
companion. Tender, compassionate, bewildered, the son strives to
understand the havoc his father inflicts on his family. In a
starred review, Publishers Weekly wrote that Hribal establishes an
American landscape in the tradition of Cheever and Updike, though
his is a world not of cocktail parties but of trailer parks, bars,
and courtrooms. The subtle power of these stories will leave the
reader hungry for more.
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