A Kind of Flying: Selected Stories
File Name:A Kind of Flying: Selected Stories
Posted By:Ron Carlson
Published on 2009-10-01 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-10:0393077659
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|These stories are full of surprises, jolts, and lightning strikes of recognition. Do yourself a favor and read Ron Carlson.| —Stephen King Ron Carlson's stories, sometimes wicked or bittersweet, often zany, are rich with a hard-earned hopefulness frequently absent in contemporary fiction. In this generous gathering from collections no longer available, longtime fans and new readers alike can savor the development of a master of idiosyncrasy. Properly celebrated for his range, Carlson offers us a rural sheriff who's wary of UFOs (|Phenomena|), a lawyer on a mission in remote Alaska (|Blazo|), a baseball player turned killer-by-accident (|Zanduce at Second|), and a nineteen-year-old who experiences an unsettling sexual awakening during an Arizona summer (|Oxygen|). Here also is a man accusing Bigfoot of stealing his wife, followed by Bigfoot's incomparable response. Not least of the treasures is |The H Street Sledding Record,| a story perfect for family holiday reading, in which a young father creates the magic of Santa by throwing manure on his roof on Christmas Eve. This book proves Carlson's axiom that |a short story is not a single thing done a single way,| and it offers us—finally—a full view of his remarkable talents.
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