From Sea to Stormy Sea

by Lawrence Block

Overview

Seventeen stories by seventeen brilliant writers, inspired by seventeen paintings. That was the formula for Lawrence Block’s two ground-breaking anthologies, In Sunlight or in Shadow and Alive in Shape and Color, and it’s on glorious display here once again in From Sea to Stormy Sea.This time the paintings are exclusively the work of American artists, and the roster includes Harvey Dunn, John Steuart Curry, Reginald Marsh, Thomas Hart Benton, Helen Frankenthaler, Winslow Homer, Rockwell Kent, Grant Wood, Childe Hassam and Andy Warhol. Among the star-studded lineup of writers you’ll find Jerome Charyn, Jane Hamilton, Christa Faust, John Sandford, Sara Paretsky, Walter Mosley, Charles Ardai, Barry Malzberg, and Janice Eidus. It’s an outstanding collection, with widely divergent stories united by theme and culture, and—no surprise—beautifully illustrated with full-color reproductions of the seventeen paintings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781643132853
Publisher:	Pegasus Books
Publication date:	12/03/2019
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	31 MB
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About the Author

Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning mystery and suspense fiction for half a century. His newest book is The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes. His other recent novels include The Burglar Who Counted The Spoons, Hit Me, and A Drop Of The Hard Stuff, featuring Matthew Scudder. He's well known for his books for writers, including the classic Telling Lies For Fun&Profit and Write For Your Life, and he has recently published The Crime of Our Lives, a collection of his writings about the mystery genre and its practitioners.
Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning mystery and suspense fiction for half a century. His novels include The Girl With the Deep Blue Eyes, The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons, Hit Me, and A Drop of the Hard Stuff, featuring Matthew Scudder. He's well known for his books for writers, including the classic Telling Lies For Fun&Profit and Write for Your Life, and he has recently published The Crime of Our Lives, a collection of his writings about the mystery genre and its practitioners.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Before We Begin …

Lawrence Block vii

The Prairie Is My Garden

Patti Abbott

Mother Of Pearl

Charles Ardai 19

Superficial In Juries

Jan Burke 31

The Man From Hard Rock Mountain

Jerome Charyn 49

Adrift Off The Diamond Shoals

Brendan DuBois 59

You're A Walking Time Bong

Janice Eidus 77

Garnets

Christa Faust 89

He Came In Through The Bathroom Window

Scott Frank 99

On Little Terry Road

Tom Franklin 117

Someday, A Revolution

Jane Hamilton 129

Riverfront

Barry N. Malzberg 139

Silvar At Lakeside

Warren Moore 147

Get Him

Micah Nathan 159

Baptism In Kansas

Sara Paretsky 175

A Matter Of Options

Gary Phillips 201

Girl With An Ax

John Sandford 219

The Way We See The World

Lawrence Block 237

Peamissions 255

Editorial Reviews

An imaginative collection bristling with surprises. Block has masterminded another delectably provocative union of art and suspense.

Booklist [Praise for Alive in Shape and Color]

For anyone who has puzzled over the vividly evocative works of the beloved Edward Hopper, this little volume is the perfect gift. Short stories by 17 writers dramatically start where the paintings leave off.

San Francisco Chronicle [Praise for In Sunlight Or In Shadow]

This absolutely superb anthology starts out with two advantages: a true legend at the helm in crime writer Lawrence Block, and a fascinating concept. Every story is superlative.

USA Today [Praise for In Sunlight Or In Shadow]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, any of Edward Hopper’s paintings of American loneliness is worth an entire short story. Ekphrasis—seeing a story in a picture—was seldom so much fun.

Michael Dirda

A remarkable gallery show. For this imagination-firing anthology, Lawrence Block asked writers to use a celebrated American painting as a launchpad for a short story.

Shelf Awareness

Since the writers he’s chosen tend to specialize in crime and genre fiction, the stories are chock-full of loners, losers and cynics who get to say snappy lines.

Associated Press