The middle of the night / Daniel Stolar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stolar, Daniel.

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

242 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Picador, 2003.

Summary:

In this wise, Exquisitely Crafted Collection of stories of love and loss, desire and longing, Daniel Stolar takes us from New England woods to Midwestern suburbs, from the private clubs of the Ivy League to the basketball courts in inner St. Louis. Like the best storytellers, Stolar turns his eye to what William Faulkner called the source of all literature, "the human heart in conflict with itself," and in eight expansive stories he burrows directly into the hearts and minds of people struggling to comprehend the strange paths their lives have taken. A seventy-year-old retired doctor strains to teach his sixteen-year-old son to drive. A woman receives a phone call from the father she never knew. A young lawyer at a high school reunion sees the woman he was too timid to love. A widower introduces his new love to the sister of the wife he believes he failed. And a Jewish student's understanding of himself is shattered by his decision to pledge a black fraternity. Each of these richly varied stories is endowed with an insistent but plain-spoken intelligence, illuminating the drama and mystery at the heart of ordinary life. A commanding performance of deep emotional resonance, The Middle of the Night heralds the arrival of a powerful new writer.

Contents:

Jack Landers is my friend

Home in New Hampshire

Second son

Crossing over

Marriage lessons

The trip home

Fundamentals

Mourning.

ISBN:

0312304099

OCLC:

51586957

Online:

Publisher description