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If Caught in Quicksand

出版	Independently Published, 2020-08-26
主題	Fiction / Literary
ISBN	9798679532915
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BK7XzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋In this new collection of stories, award-winning author David James Parr navigates the cosmic and comic complications of everyday life as well as the deeper complexities of human nature that come to define and defy us. In FLOATING, a career temp wonders if a mysterious physical ailment is related to the recent loss of a grandmother from Alzheimer's and the estrangement from a live-in boyfriend; a vivacious and volatile aspiring actress plays HONEYMOON BRIDGE with a childhood friend recovering from vocal surgery, and in the ensuing one-way conversation reveals a devastating secret from their youth; a rueful addict standing center-stage in a rehab lists all of the reasons, obvious and not, WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER DO COCAINE BY JOHN PATRICK; a young wife spending time in a mental hospital after an incident with an axe is inspired by true-crime thrillers to devise her own plot of revenge involving TROJAN CAKES; a shattered son recollects fragments of his mother's death while on a BENDER; and, in IF CAUGHT IN QUICKSAND, a lonely young man attempts a budding romance while reconciling his twisted attraction to an alluring, enigmatic stranger that leads to a terrifying encounter on a deserted beach. Caught in pivotal moments of their lives, the women and men in this collection make bold, unexpected choices to let go of past demons and take hold of future lives.