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Big Bend: Stories

Big Bend: Stories

Roorbach, Bill

Paperback

Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, Book 30

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $23.95

ISBN10: 082034723X
ISBN13: 9780820347233
Publisher: Univ Of Georgia Pr
Published: Feb 15 2014
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Through quirky plots, one-of-kind characters, and more than a few twists, the stories in Big Bend examine gentle-hearted men and their relationships. From made-in-heaven meetings to troublesome liaisons, Roorbach's characters experience romance in unexpected, sometimes disastrous ways.

In Fog, a teenage boy learns hard lessons about canoes, the Gulf of Maine, sex, and love. A struggling young artist goes home for the holidays in search of succor for the stomach--and heart--with poor results in Thanksgiving. Other stories recount the ultimately disastrous reunion of estranged friends, an unemployed architect's foolish courting with bad company, and a middle-aged rock star's struggle with the urge to settle down. In the tiitle story, Big Bend, a grieving widower, troubled by his own waning years, is tempted by a seductively attentive birdwatcher no older than his daughter.

Poignant tales of hauntingly familiar situations, Bill Roorbach's stories are full of heart, romance, edgy humor, and the frequently concealed vulnerability of men.

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