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Overview
Alternating a tale of the past that has become a part of Key West legend with a contemporary story that reflects the pulse of life there today, Hersey weaves in these stories a brilliant human tapestry of the place that means a great deal to him. From the author of A Bell For Adano and Hiroshima comes this final collections of stories.Synopsis
Alternating a tale of the past that has become a part of Key West legend with a contemporary story that reflects the pulse of life there today, Hersey weaves in these stories a brilliant human tapestry of the place that means a great deal to him. From the author of A Bell For Adano and Hiroshima comes this final collections of stories.
Publishers Weekly
Published posthumously, this collection of stories by Hersey offers a tapestry of life in Key West. (Aug.)
Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
Published posthumously, this collection of stories by Hersey offers a tapestry of life in Key West. (Aug.)Library Journal
When John Hersey died earlier this year, he left a legacy of 25 books, 15 fiction and ten nonfiction. In this final collection of stories, Hersey focuses on his theme of ordinary people facing momentous events in their lives: death by AIDS, the death of a friend from AIDS, loss of innocence and virginity, meeting the son one had given up for adoption two decades before, or retirement from military service. Hersey presents as interludes brief, italicized vignettes of the famous or powerful people who have lived in or visited Key West. Hersey makes the ordinary folk heroic and the famous venal, sometimes to odd effect: The venality of the famous can be more engaging than the substantiveness of the obscure, perhaps because the latter lack the fullness of character that would make them more appealing. Still, this final collection is recommended.-- Harold Augenbraum, Mercantile Lib., New YorkBook Details
Published
August 1, 1996
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages
227
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780679772637