{ "item_title" : "Trace Elements", "item_author" : [" Ed Gorman", "Tracy Knight "], "item_description" : "Tracy is what so few other writers, even the great ones, are . . . an original, writes Ed Gorman in his Introduction. His fascination with human beings of all stripes linked with his skills as a writer and poet combine to shape the voice and form of his stories. From the author of The Astonished Eye and Beneath a Whiskey Sky, here are 13 stories both bizarre and humane that span mystery, science fiction and horror. *A young intern is assigned to deal with an outcast man who suffers psychotic episodes every Father's Day. *A man sets out to murder both himself and his deformed daughter, who can't tell him that she loves being alive. * The mysterious entity, trapped in a nursing home, has absorbed more human grief than even a visitor to earth can bear . . . and it's all spilling out.Genre author Knight, who has written both science fiction and westerns, offers 13 short stories that focus on people who are either damaged, marginalized, or both: a man who loses his mind every Father's Day; a 'cat lady'; a former stage star, now living in a nursing home; an elderly dementia sufferer; a war-veteranrecluse; a young woman with cerebral palsy. Knight, a clinical psychologist, takes us deep inside his characters, letting us get a good look at what makes them tick. These aren't just character studies, though; they're compelling pieces of short fiction, with gripping, often unsettling tales to tell. ...(R)eading them as a whole gives a stronger sense of the author's gifts as a storyteller, especially his ability to create characters who seem uncomfortably familiar, making us wonder if we, too, may one day join society's damaged and marginalized. --David Pitt, Booklist", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/79/461/251/1794612513_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "11.00", "online_price" : "11.00", "our_price" : "11.00", "club_price" : "11.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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