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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.
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- 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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