ASIN: B00884IZHU
Publisher: Mermaid Press of Maine
Pages: 172
This collection of two essays and twelve stories was the first book published by the author of the novel EDMUND PERSUADER. Before its publication on Kindle the book was so rare that one review noted, “Here is a book money can’t buy.” Composed in an utterly lucid style, these little “morality tales” combine the simplicity of fairy tales with deeply realistic insights into the piercing travail of love and friendship in all its familiar forms. Especially recommended for those daunted by the length and richness of the author’s later work, these early pieces almost “read themselves.” And those who have read the longer novels and are hungry for more will not want to miss this perfectly cut diamond of a book, in all its brilliance, clarity, hardness, and beauty. As the final essay says, “All we really have, when the dogmas and delusions are stripped away, is one another: in our fellow humans ...
