Book description
A Methodist minister gone astray, a trout bum gone fishing with his
father's ashes, an artist overwhelmed by embodied beauty-these are
among the uncommon heroes and exquisite narratives in this first
collection of stories by the American poet and essayist, Thomas Lynch.
Set in Michigan's north woods, Ohio's interior, on islands, in casinos
and distant cities, these fictions are linked by the gone and not
forgotten: former spouses, dead parents, and missing children. In
pursuit of love and its redemptions, Lynch's characters are haunted by
memory, dogged by desire, made radiant by romance and its denouements.
With the elegant prose known to the readers of his earlier work,
Lynch masterfully creates a world where mirage and apparition are
commonplace, where people searching for safe harbour, reconnection and
old comforts find them both near at hand and oddly out of reach.
Thomas Lynch is the award winning author of three collections of
poems and three books of nonfiction including
The Undertaking
- Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
. His work has appeared in the
Atlantic
and
New Yorker
,
Harper's
,
Granta
, and
Paris Review
. His commentaries have appeared in the
New York Times
, the
Irish Times
and the
Times
and are regularly broadcast on the BBC, RTE and NPR. He lives in
Milford, Michigan, and Moveen, West Clare.
