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In Makuck s fourth collection of short stories he once again explores the fertile territory of small, rural American towns. With tenderness and clarity, he excavates the mundane surface of everyday lives to reveal compassionate characters who are unexpectedly vulnerable. The stories in "Wins and Losses" are set in a car, a courtroom, a university English department, a sports bar, a jetliner, a laundromat. Characters struggle with regret, desire, expectations, and a need to win when loss is inevitable. A high school student whose father was killed in a car crash and who can speak openly only to his girlfriend delivers prescriptions for a pharmacy and learns much about people and values in the course of his deliveries. A lawyer recalls a dubious family friend, an undercover cop, who pressured him as a young boy toward guns and football. A recent widow finds a cardboard box on her front porch only to discover it contains the body of her dog. A young woman takes her mother to a cardiologist and, while in the waiting room, gets into an argument with a wealthy political conservative at great cost to both of them. In the tradition of Cheever and Updike, Makuck's stories give us characters struggling with questions of what really matters."

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Short stories

• Plný název: Wins and Losses
• Podnázev: Stories
• Autor: Peter Makuck
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 214
• EAN: 9780815634942
• ISBN: 0815634943
• ID: 11538325
• Nakladatelství: Syracuse University Press
• Hmotnost: 348 g
• Rozměry: 203 × 127 × 17 mm
• Datum vydání: 30. July 2016

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