Tornados and Other Seasons: A Collection of Short Stories
On a steaming hot day in August in the title story of Tornado and Other Seasons, a dancing black funnel rips into the farm of Earl Stiles, and seventeen-year-old Anne Stiles comes to a decision about her future. In the love story, Puzzles, eighty-year-old Nell Webb comes down to breakfast a few weeks after her husband Dan's funeral to find him waiting for her in a shaft of sunlight at the kitchen table, smiling and holding out the newspaper, ready to start the cross word puzzle.
The six stories in Tornado and Other Seasons peer at the delicate divide between social normalcy and individualism, between the logic of emotions and the unpredictability of life. The central theme of each story is caprice: the best-laid plans in an otherwise orderly day can take a sharp turn upon encountering a hitchhiker, a death in the family, or a sudden change in the weather.
They are stories about love and loss: loss of competence, loss of youth and vitality, of property or a means of living, or loss of life. And they are stories about love: the all-consuming love of a child, of a partner, of the fine arts, or the love of making meaning. Sometimes the lost characters are 'found'; sometimes not. But each changes his life.
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The six stories in Tornado and Other Seasons peer at the delicate divide between social normalcy and individualism, between the logic of emotions and the unpredictability of life. The central theme of each story is caprice: the best-laid plans in an otherwise orderly day can take a sharp turn upon encountering a hitchhiker, a death in the family, or a sudden change in the weather.
They are stories about love and loss: loss of competence, loss of youth and vitality, of property or a means of living, or loss of life. And they are stories about love: the all-consuming love of a child, of a partner, of the fine arts, or the love of making meaning. Sometimes the lost characters are 'found'; sometimes not. But each changes his life.
Tornados and Other Seasons: A Collection of Short Stories
On a steaming hot day in August in the title story of Tornado and Other Seasons, a dancing black funnel rips into the farm of Earl Stiles, and seventeen-year-old Anne Stiles comes to a decision about her future. In the love story, Puzzles, eighty-year-old Nell Webb comes down to breakfast a few weeks after her husband Dan's funeral to find him waiting for her in a shaft of sunlight at the kitchen table, smiling and holding out the newspaper, ready to start the cross word puzzle.
The six stories in Tornado and Other Seasons peer at the delicate divide between social normalcy and individualism, between the logic of emotions and the unpredictability of life. The central theme of each story is caprice: the best-laid plans in an otherwise orderly day can take a sharp turn upon encountering a hitchhiker, a death in the family, or a sudden change in the weather.
They are stories about love and loss: loss of competence, loss of youth and vitality, of property or a means of living, or loss of life. And they are stories about love: the all-consuming love of a child, of a partner, of the fine arts, or the love of making meaning. Sometimes the lost characters are 'found'; sometimes not. But each changes his life.
The six stories in Tornado and Other Seasons peer at the delicate divide between social normalcy and individualism, between the logic of emotions and the unpredictability of life. The central theme of each story is caprice: the best-laid plans in an otherwise orderly day can take a sharp turn upon encountering a hitchhiker, a death in the family, or a sudden change in the weather.
They are stories about love and loss: loss of competence, loss of youth and vitality, of property or a means of living, or loss of life. And they are stories about love: the all-consuming love of a child, of a partner, of the fine arts, or the love of making meaning. Sometimes the lost characters are 'found'; sometimes not. But each changes his life.
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| BN ID: | 2940013405356 |
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| Publisher: | Punkin House |
| Publication date: | 01/04/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 275 KB |
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