| Through the Safety Net: Stories Contributor(s): Baxter, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679776494 ISBN-13: 9780679776499 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1998 Annotation: Baxter dives into the undercurrents of middle-class American life in these eleven arresting, often mesmerizing stories. Whether they know it or not, Baxter's characters are floating above an abyss of unruly desire, inexplicable dread, unforeseen tragedy, and sudden moments of grace. A drunken graduate student hurtles cheerfully through a snowstorm to rescue a fiancee who no longer wants him. A hospital maintenance worker makes a perverse bid for his place in the sunlight of celebrity. A man and a woman who have lost their only child cling fiercely to the one thing they have left of her--their grief. Lit by the quiet lightning of Baxter's prose, Through the Safety Net is filled with rare artistry and feeling. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - Marriage & Divorce |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98026445 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.19" W x 8.02" (0.52 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Baxter dives into the undercurrents of middle-class American life in these eleven arresting, often mesmerizing stories. Whether they know it or not, Baxter's characters are floating above an abyss of unruly desire, inexplicable dread, unforeseen tragedy, and sudden moments of grace. A drunken graduate student hurtles cheerfully through a snowstorm to rescue a fiancee who no longer wants him. A hospital maintenance worker makes a perverse bid for his place in the sunlight of celebrity. A man and a woman who have lost their only child cling fiercely to the one thing they have left of her--their grief. Lit by the quiet lightning of Baxter's prose, Through the Safety Net is filled with rare artistry and feeling. |