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Overview

A young bartender in Boston's North End finds himself complicit in the breakdown of his roommate's relationship with a girlfriend; a married, middle-aged professor of composition abjectly crumbles under the stress of his affair with a beautiful student. In his debut fiction collection, poet Ed Meek vividly reimagines a gritty, freewheeling 1970s New England whose cynical, impulsive inhabitants--torn between the longing for human connection and the fear of domesticity--negotiate the blurry boundaries of personal responsibility. With these deceptively mundane accounts of ordinary lives in transition, Meek paints a humane, subtle portrait of ordinary people grasping at explanations for the things they do.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780996717588
  • ISBN-10: 0996717587
  • Publisher: Tailwinds Press Enterprises LLC
  • Publish Date: February 2017
  • Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 0.58 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.54 pounds
  • Page Count: 258

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