The Goat Fish and the Lover's Knot / by Jack Driscoll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Driscoll, Jack, 1946- author.

Series:

Made in Michigan writers series.

Made in Michigan Writers Series

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Michigan.

Michigan--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Ten stories mostly set in Michigan's northern lower peninsula, a landscape as gorgeous as it is severe. If at times the situations in these stories appear hopeless, the characters nonetheless, and even against seemingly impossible odds, dare to hope. These fictional individuals are so compassionately rendered that they can hardly help but be, in the hands of this writer, not only redeemed but made universal. The stories are written from multiple points of view and testify to Driscoll's range and understanding of human nature, and to how "the heart in conflict with itself" always defines the larger, more meaningful story. A high school pitching sensation loses his arm in a public school classroom during show and tell. A woman lives all of her ages in one day. A fourteen-year-old boy finds himself alone after midnight in a rowboat in the middle of the lake with his best friend's mother.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

The Goat Fish and the Lover's Knot

All The Time in the World

Calcheck and Priest

The Alchemist's Apprentice

Land of the Lost and Found

The Good Father

A Woman Gone Missing

Here's How It Works

On This Day You Are All Your Ages

That Story

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

988086376