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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Potpourri

Potpourri

Lawton, Rick

Paperback

HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $9.99

ISBN10: 0978886259
ISBN13: 9780978886257
Publisher: Sasha Pr
Published: Apr 1 2021
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Potpourri is a collection of thirteen of Rick Lawton's stories. In his opening, Prelude, the author opines about the difficulties in remembering what exactly happened and what exactly he wrote at a particular time and concludes that it doesn't matter because we inevitably shape and re-shape the past, present, and even the future in our imagination. The author's stories are a rediscovery of what he was imagining at a certain time and place in his life. Thematically, the stories are about personal identity, what it means to reinvent oneself, and finding a place of refuge. Name Game is about a perplexed G.I. in Germany during the Viet Nam War worried about who he will be when he comes home; Trash Pad shows the impulse to change in a man whose apartment has become too public; The Rug shows what happens to a man in middle age whose hair starts falling; The DVD shows how a technical innovation can highlight the problem of commitment in a couple in New York City. The stories are humorous and ironic and also contain a poignancy which makes the characters real. The collection finishes with four shorter stories set in San Francisco and the last story, Home, takes place in a botanical garden.

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