"Meissner has the storytellers gift for creating living characters, living speech, living emotions, living drama. He knows his small towns, but beyond that, he knows the workings of the human heart." Tim OBrien, author of The Things They Carried and July, July "A storyteller with remarkable gifts." Kurt Vonnegut "Meissners stories are expressions of the complex connections between ourselves and parents. They say what we all should say but usually cant. In that way they serve literatures best purpose." Richard Ford In his second short story collection, Bill Meissner explores the consciousness of Cosmos, U.S.A, a small town that is anything but ordinary. Though it has its share of residents intent on keeping the world on an even keel, Cosmos is blessed with a healthy number of eccentrics who are chasing their dreams, idiosyncratic as they may be, or struggling to distinguish themselves as individuals. We meet Duane, hoping to build a replica of Stonehenge with salvaged cars Norm, the local weatherman, longing to be the first person to film the inside of a tornado Elmo, a groundskeeper, seeking perfection on his baseball field and Doloresconvinced Elvis is still aliveattempting to overcome the pain of her husbands desertion. Threaded through the collection are poignant childhood memories told through the voice of Skip Carrigan, a native son, who left and returned years later. Skips stories chronicle a sometimes tender, sometimes stormy relationship with his father through...

Binding: Paperback;206 pages; Publisher: Longleaf - Univ of Notre Dame du Lac; Classification: N/A; Weight: 403.95 g; Dimensions: N/A

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