Cries for Help, Various: Stories
Cries for Help, Various: Stories
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Padgett Powell s new collection of stories, "Cries for Help, Various, " follows his mentor Donald Barthelme s advice that wacky mode must break their hearts. The surrealistic and comical terrain of most of the forty-four stories here is grounded by a real preoccupation with longing, fear, work, loneliness, and cultural nostalgia. In Joplin and Dickens, the musician and writer meet as emotionally needy students in an American middle school; in Change of Life, a father ponders whether getting new clothes for the family or the patriotic purchase of a new Government Cookie Flyer would be more meaningful. In The Imperative Mood, giving orders to others Fall back and regroup leads less to power than to rumination...
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