Fiction, American Fiction, World Literature, Fiction Subjects
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Overview
"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 title story, "Big Bend," a grieving widower, troubled by his own waning years, is tempted by a seductively attentive birdwatcher no older than his daughter."--BOOK JACKET.Editorials
Los Angeles Weekly
Roorbach is as raw and engaged a writer as you'll ever read...He rivals James Baldwin in his ability to miraculously open up rivers of male sentiment.Newsday
Immensely appealing...Roorbach's tender, affecting stories will leave you feeling as if you've come to understand your own missteps and misjudgments slightly better, and to forgive yourself a little more.Book Details
Published
November 27, 2002
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pages
188
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781582432571