ISBN: 0-88739-103-6
40 pp.
Size: 5 x 7.5
Paperback Original
Price: $9.50
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Price of the Ride, The
Thomas Farber
Celebrating with deceptive economy and merciless wit the perils of our journey through life, Thomas Farber's "compressions, repercussions, tarts, & tales" reverberate as they evoke French epigrammatists, Zen koans, and the wry wisdoms of Country music. Unflinchingly, these very short stories insist on the saving grace of language and (gallows) humor, whatever the price of the ride.
Review: "Like the book's themes, the structure is a continual surprise of perspective...a beautiful feeling of everything coming together in space and time-and yes, even in a kind of love."
-The New York Times
"...sharply conceived and brilliantly executed...his prose is as spare and specifying as black-and-white photography...His gift is real."
-The Nation
"Stunning...to be reread and remembered with pleasure."
-Chicago Tribune
"...quietly devastating. The people in these stories stay with you, and in fact you begin to run into them everywhere you go."
-Rolling Stone
"[Farber] continues to write gently and compassionately of major moments in minor lives-real people paddling doggedly, furiously against the current."
-Kirkus
"...delicately crafted..."
-Publishers Weekly
Bio: Awarded Guggenheim and (three times) National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships for fiction and creative non-fiction, THOMAS FARBER has been a Fulbright scholar, recipient of the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, and Rockefeller Foundation scholar at Bellagio. He is currently Senior Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley
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