Last Call

ISBN-13: 9780803271715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 270 str.

K. L. Cook

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In this tenth anniversary edition of K. L. Cook s debut collection, the linked stories of Last Call span three generations in the life of one West Texas family. Events both tender and tragic lead to a strange and lovely vision of a world stitched together in tenuous ways as the characters struggle to make sense of their lives amid the shifting boundaries of marriage, family, class, and culture.
A series of unusual incidents a daughter s elopement, a sobering holiday trip, a vicious attack by the family dog, a lightning strike provokes a mother of five to abandon her children. An oil rigger, inspired by sun-induced hallucinations, rescues his estranged wife, who doesn t appreciate his chivalry. In the wake of his father s and brother s deaths, a teenage boy finds precarious solace working with his mother at a country-western bar. A woman fleeing her fourth marriage arrives at a complicated understanding of love and responsibility.
Cook s stories suggesting unlikely connections between comedy and pathos, cruelty and generosity promise a hard-won dignity and hope.
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