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Should an aging sportswriter accept $60,000 as dowry to wed a lovely Asian weightlifter?
Will a 108-year-old Japanese woman end it all by flying away with a flock of cranes?
As Feds and Mafia close in, why is Jack Ruby's driver playing "Aint Misbehavin" on his clarinet?
These eleven stories comprise Kelso at his best. Ranging across the USA and Asia, from WWII to this century, the stories reflect the author's forays as folksinger, soldier, teacher, and journalist.

"Enduring humor, high seriousness, and intelligence. Kelso writes with mastery of the craft."
-- Kevin...

According to Kelso, the Book of Chronicles silences women in specific ways, most radically through their association with maternity. Drawing on the work of two feminist philosophers, Luce Irigaray and Michelle Boulous Walker, she argues that we may discern two principal strategies of silencing women in Chronicles: disavowal and repression of the maternal body. In its simplest form, the silencing of women takes place through both an explicit and implicit strategy of excluding them from the central action. Largely banished from the central action, they are hardly able to contribute to the...

This book also includes two bonus sections: The first on using the Gerard trap bar, and the other, a bone structure course.
Profusely illustrated.
WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE KELSO SHRUG:

"You've take the shrug farther than anyone in the game," Peary Rader.

"Should be part of every trainee's program," Doctor Ken Leistner.

Seb Doubinsky was born in Paris and spent part of his childhood in the USA, an experience that indelibly marked him for life. He currently lives in Denmark with his wife and children. He writes fl uently in both French and English and has published more than a dozen novels that blur the boundaries between literary fiction, science fiction and crime fiction, and a volume of short stories. His poetry has been published around the world to great acclaim and has been collected in at least nine stand-alone volumes. He edits the bi-lingual on-line literary magazine Le Zaporogue, publishes books...

Building a foundation. Gathering wood. Overcoming limits.

It's all about building a dream, and Fran Kelso tells how in "Alaskan Attitudes," her personal memoir about living alone on the Alaskan homestead.

Kelso had always wanted to build a home and live on Spruce Island, Alaska. But when it's time to start building, her husband announces he wants a separation. Facing the end of her marriage and possibly the end of her dream, she decides to go on with the help of friends and moves forward with her plan-alone.

Taking a leap of faith is harder than Kelso imagined, however. She moves...