Dreams and Dull Realities
File Name:Dreams and Dull Realities
Posted By:John Kearns
Published on 2010-05 by Lulu.com
ISBN-10:0615166369
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A unified collection of stories, |Dreams and Dull Realities| plays variations on the theme of imagination's colliding with concrete reality. The collection's lyrical, comical, touching, and absurd stories portray seven male and five female Irish-American and Latino protagonists whose vibrant interior lives contrast sharply with their dreary exterior lives. Beginning with the prize-winning, |Flight,| the collection takes readers on a tour through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and aging in Philadelphia and The Bronx, employing a variety of styles. Internal monologues depict the thoughts of children and teenagers. A parody of sports announcers describes a Friday commute. A loquacious Dominican sister narrates the tale of her |tragic| trip home for Thanksgiving. Expressionistic detail illuminates the bizarre weekly ritual of a group of retired men. Written and revised over the course of more than twenty years, the twelve stories of |Dreams and Dull Realities| form a singular powerful work.
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