The Evening News (Paperback)

Tony Ardizzone writes of the moments in our lives that shine, that burn in the dim expanse of memory with the intensity and vivid light of the evening news. The men and women in these stories tend to arrange their days, order their pasts, plan their futures in the light of such moments, finding epiphanies in the glowing memory of a father's laugh or a mother's repeated story, in a broken date or a rained-out ball game.
Set mostly in Chicago's blue-collar neighborhoods, these stories focus on subjects that concern us all: disease and death, vandalism and sacrilege, rape and infidelity, lost love. The husband and wife in the title story look at their pasts--his as an activist in the sixties and hers as a believer in reincarnation and the tarot--in light of the news stories they watch on television each evening and question whether they should bring a child into the world. And in "The Walk-On," a bartender and former varsity pitcher for the University of Illinois Fighting Illini finds the actual events of the most cataclysmic day in his past unequal to their impact on his life and so rewrites them in his mind, adding an ill-placed banana peel, a falling meteor, and a careening truck in order to create a more fitting climax and finally to leave those memories behind him.
Searching their pasts for clues to the present, searching the horizons of their days for love, the characters in "The Evening News" seek, and sometimes find, redemption in a world of uncertainty and brightly burning emotions.

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2013
First published:	March 2013
Authors:	Tony Ardizzone
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	178
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-4461-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-8203-4461-3
Barcode:	9780820344614

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