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- Publication Name
- Emergency Calls
- Title
- Emergency Calls
- EAN
- 9780826210753
- ISBN
- 9780826210753
- Release Date
- 08/31/1996
- Release Year
- 1996
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 333g
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Emergency Calls : Stories
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press
- Genre
- Poetry, Fiction
- Topic
- General
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Troubled relationships between parents and children, most of them adults or at least in their late teens, provide the framework for many stories in this collection. In "Faculty X," a middle-aged son witnesses his mother's fixation with death and her attempt to cope with senility. "If I lose my glasses for good, you have to promise me you'll buy another pair just like them. I can't be buried without my glasses. I wouldn't be myself." In "Keeping Nice," Greg Haskins deals with his conflicting emotions of "contempt" for his aging mother's obsession to keep her belongings "nice" by covering them with plastic and his own fear of the uncontrollable forces around him. Both "Callback" and the moving title story, "Emergency Calls," explore the anxieties of parents trying to balance the need to protect their teenage children with the task of making them accountable for their own often self-destructive actions. "Darwin in the City" centers on a man's paranoia and anxiety attacks over everything from hearing his wife gurgle her last breath into her pillow to the impending blindness that he knows will be his fate. In "The Tabloid Strategy" an elderly man is determined to create a new beginning for himself. "'I'm running for office, ' Lou Gorski said to his daughter on his seventy-first birthday. 'I'm starting my second life.'" The reader soon discovers, however, that starting a second life isn't quite that simple. With vivid description and compelling dialogue, Gary Fincke pulls the reader deep into these stories and into the lives of these unforgettable characters. Emergency Calls is a masterful collection by a truly gifted writer.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
ISBN-10
0826210759
ISBN-13
9780826210753
eBay Product ID (ePID)
257172
Product Key Features
Book Title
Emergency Calls : Stories
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Poetry, Fiction
Dimensions
Item Length
9in.
Item Height
0.4in.
Item Width
6in.
Item Weight
8.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
96-008539
Age Range
18-Up
Lc Classification Number
Ps3556.I457e48 1996
Grade from
College Freshman
Reviews
"These ten stories are little gems. Gary Fincke is a terrific writer. His situations develop fast and are immediately engaging. His characters are memorable, occasionally eccentric, always believable. He creates his effects without ever appearing to try very hard."--Steve Yarbrough
Copyright Date
1996
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Number of Pages
144 Pages
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