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Lucky Breaks (breaking good)
Paperback
Publisher Price: $15.98
ISBN13: 9781088108529
Publisher: Bbc Audio
Published: Apr 16 2023
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This is the author's 7th outing in the Elysian Fields of short fiction. My goodness, what fun! Every tale in this collection involves a break of some sort or another that redounds to the protagonist's benefit. The victims/beneficiaries range from an archaeologist who loses a leg while tumbling into an Olmec cave, to the author whose grade school broken arm was the height of his young success, to an artiste in France who's scheme to poison a competitor falls through thanks to ... but, no, let's not give away the store this soon. Bones, marriages, rives, cleaves, disruptions ... oh gosh, lots more ... all lead to one or another of life's little happy dances. Twenty-seven gleeful disconnections packed into 200 pages. Oh, my!
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