Collected Stories edition by Harry Mark Petrakis Literature Fiction eBooks
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The complete short fiction of Harry Mark Petrakis, a master of the short story form who has been praised as “one of our finest writers” by the New York Times. Revealing commentaries by the author introduce each of the stories from “Pericles on 31st Street,” his first published work, to half a dozen stories appearing here for the first time. Petrakis wrote a long powerful new story “Song of Songs,” especially for this collection
Ranging from the comic and lusty to the tragic, the characters in these stories might be our neighbors, men and women of flesh and blood, loving, working and dying within what appear to be ordinary lives. But Petrakis makes us understand that all experience is unique and that each individual life, from birth until death comprises a series of miracles.
In “The Bastards of Thanos,” a fiery dying poet recognizes his most potent creation in the person of his bastard son; Polish iceman suffer the fate of some great doom Greek line in “The Passing of the Ice”; in “The Song of Rodanthe,” a fleeting vision of love flowers within the confines of the grim social prison; in “The Journal of a Wife Beater,” an insufferable male chauvinist discovers to his horror and bodily power peril, that his wife is younger, stronger and even more vengeful than he is. And in “Song of Songs.” the placid seemingly contented lives of a husband and wife are shattered by erotic discoveries about each other when a sensuous woman named Blossom opens an intimate apparel shop on their street.
Collected Stories edition by Harry Mark Petrakis Literature Fiction eBooks
Excellent collection of unique original stories - they peel back the easy facade and show us some intense and deep characters.All walks of life, all professions, you will recognize some of the ppl he writes about - these are some wild characters, some bigger than
life and some show their colors late in the story. I have been reading this multiple times, over 10 years, since I had the pleasure of going to a talk/reading of his. Great story teller live too = he was bedridden as a child, so he spent his days reading and reading everything!
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I love Petrakis' stories. They really give me a good picture of what it may have been like for my parents when they immigrated to this country from Greece. They also settled in a city, but it was Pittsburgh rather than Chicago.
Excellent collection of unique original stories - they peel back the easy facade and show us some intense and deep characters.
All walks of life, all professions, you will recognize some of the ppl he writes about - these are some wild characters, some bigger than
life and some show their colors late in the story. I have been reading this multiple times, over 10 years, since I had the pleasure of going to a talk/reading of his. Great story teller live too = he was bedridden as a child, so he spent his days reading and reading everything!
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