Months and Seasons

by Christopher Meeks

Overview

"Months and Seasons" is the follow-up story collection to Christopher Meeks' award-winning "The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea." With a combination of main characters from young to old, the tales combine drama and humor and pursue such people as a supermodel who awakens after open-heart surgery, a famous playwright who faces a firestorm consuming the landscape, a reluctant man who attends a Halloween party as Dracula, and a New Yorker who thinks she's a chicken. This collection made the long list of the prestigious Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.

"Christopher Meeks' quirky stories are lyrical and wonderfully human. Enjoy."
--author Sandra Tsing Loh ("A Year in Van Nuys," "Aliens in America")

"If the object of art is to capture the reality of the human condition one glimpse at a time, then Christopher Meeks succeeds gloriously. His stories are delightful and heart-rending, surprising and eerily familiar--chronicles, all, of the epic battles fought by ordinary characters one day at a time."
--author Gina B. Nahai ("Caspian Rain")

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013079304
Publisher:	White Whisker Books
Publication date:	09/02/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	506 KB

About the Author

Christopher Meeks has had stories published in several literary journals, and a collection of his stories came together as "The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea." He is author of two recent novels, "The Brightest Moon of the Century" and "Love At Absolute Zero." He has had three full-length plays mounted in Los Angeles, published four children’s books, reviewed theatre for seven years for Daily Variety, has had two screenplays optioned and another win the Donald Davis Dramatic Writing Award. Mr. Meeks teaches fiction writing at UCLA Extension, English at Santa Monica College, and Children’s Literature at the Art Center College of Design.

Editorial Reviews

"The stories in Months and Seasons are like potato chips: you can't read just one. Just a few sentences into the first piece, "Dracula Slinks into the Night," I immediately felt at home in the world Meeks has created."

Small Press Reviews - Marc Schuster

"With this collection, Christopher Meeks proves there is an audience for short stories. His characters are well defined with problems that they can't resolve. There are twelve tales that reveal a lot about our present society. Meeks's stories reminded me of those of John Cheever."

Midwest Book Review - Gary Roen

"For those readers fortunate enough to have read Christopher Meeks's first short story collection, 'The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea,' and discovered the idiosyncrasies of Meeks's writing style and content, rest assured that this new collection, 'Months and Seasons,' not only will not disappoint, but also it will provide further proof that we have a superior writer of the genre in our presence."

Top-Ten Reviewer, Amazon.com - Grady Harp

"I am pleased to report that if 'Months and Seasons,' the new collection from Christopher Meeks, was a music album, many of its twelve pieces would be destined for the charts – no filler here."

Book Chase - Sam Sattler

"'Months and Seasons' is very different from the recent collections I reviewed by Jhumpa Lahiri and Sana Krasikov. His characters are quirky and un¬predictable and the stories are refreshingly modern. From Halloween parties in L.A. to a summer camp in northern Minnesota, his characters never seem to do the expected thing."

Minds Alive on the Shelves - Lisa Hura