Highway Trade Contributor(s): Domini, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1888996072 ISBN-13: 9781888996074 Publisher: Red Hen Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1998 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
Dewey: 811 |
LCCN: 97076241 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.50 lbs) 192 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "John Domini is one of those rare writers who doesn't bend his characters towards his own pre-determined ends, but follows where they lead. In lesser hands, Domini's people would have been drowned in bathos. But Domini honors them with a generous but unsentimental imagination, giving us lives worth knowing about, layered portrayals of the obdurate world and our own terrifying self-betrayals. His profound, unflinching attention reminds us how closely together fiction, at its best, can unite justice with mercy." --Jay Cantor "John Domini's densely textured stories teem with compelling inner and outer life. He is a master at capturing the complex workings of minds under stress and the hard-edged negotiations we make with fate when our backs are against a wall. He knows how women and men can behave with one another. The stories move swiftly and sinuously, emerging from the everyday to coil around a reader's heart." --Floyd Skloot "Fiery, crackling prose. Domini's writing wields a double-bladed humor that is both fearsomely entertaining and pleasurably dark. Highway Trade is a sharp and compassionate work; unforgettable." --Diana Abu-Jaber |