Fieldguide, Essays and Stories

by Steve Sherwood

Overview

Acting as himself in his essays and as various protagonists in his stories, the author shows us a hunger for a vanished world of natural splendor and ideal love. The essays are persuasively strong, rising to a thematic climax in the powerfully reasoned "Environmentalist as Misanthrope." As for the matching antiphonal stories, they delight with their surprise endings and several-"The Swimmer," "The Bright Side," "Assassinations" -may best be described as small masterpieces. Both the essays and stories that comprise Field Guide share a feature I call "page richness," a literary quality that causes the reader to savor certain pages before continuing toward the conclusion, as one might pause on a long journey to enjoy especially appealing vistas. Writers either have this ability or they don't. Steve Sherwood has it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780988384422
Publisher:	Angelina River Press
Publication date:	04/11/2014
Pages:	159
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.39(d)