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This Festschrift for Wolfgang Mieder, preeminent paremiologist and
folklorist, combines personal tributes and scholarly papers by
colleagues, friends, and former students - presented in three
categories that address his roles as a mentor, scholar, and world
citizen over many decades. The central scholarly section likewise
consists of three parts. The papers dealing with proverbs examine
them as patterns, stereotypes, rhetorical devices, media for
self-enchantment, and means of allusion in works by Tolstoy,
Solzhenitsyn, Chukovskaya, and Kempowski. A second group deals with
fairy-tale motifs in literary works by Lehmann, Rabinowich, and
Hummel. A third section includes topics ranging from James Bond to
Stephen King, from runaway slaves to the Holocaust, and literature
as cultural ecology.
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Ghostlove (Paperback)
Dennis Mahoney
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An affecting story about how relationships are built--and
burned--by desperate needs and obligations
When Henry Cooper sets out on his mail route on Arcadia Street one
crisp spring morning, he has no idea that his world is about to
change. He is simply enjoying the sunshine as he lights up a cigar
and tosses the match to the ground, entirely unaware that he has
just started a fire that will destroy a neighborhood and kill a
young wife.
Even though the fire has been put out, it has ignited a lurking
menace in an otherwise apparently peaceful suburb. In "Fellow
Mortals," Dennis Mahoney depicts the fire's aftermath in the lives
of its survivors. There's Henry's wife, Ava, devoted to her husband
but yearning to recover a simpler time in their marriage. There's
the angry neighbor, Peg, who wants Henry to pay for what he's done,
no matter the cost--which ends up being grave. And then there's Sam
Bailey, the sculptor who lost his wife in the fire and has
retreated to the woods to carve mysterious figures out of trees. As
Sam struggles to overcome his anger and loss, Henry becomes the
focal point of deepening loyalties and resentments, leaving them
all vulnerable to hidden dangers and reliant on the bonds that have
emerged, unexpectedly, from tragedy.
With sparse and handsome prose reminiscent of Raymond Carver and
early Stewart O'Nan, Mahoney's probing first novel charts the fall
of a man who has spent his life working to be decent and shows us a
community trying desperately to hold itself together.
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