Evening News by Tony Ardizzone (1986, Hardcover) BRAND NEW

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ISBN
9780820308609
Publication Year
1986
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Book Title
Evening News
Book Series
Flannery O'connor Award for Short Fiction Ser.
Author
Tony Ardizzone
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Genre
Fiction
Item Length
8.5 in
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author)
Item Width
5.5 in
Number of Pages
178 Pages
Category

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
0820308609
ISBN-13
9780820308609
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1282987

Product Key Features

Book Title
Evening News
Number of Pages
178 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author)
Publication Year
1986
Genre
Fiction
Author
Tony Ardizzone
Book Series
Flannery O'connor Award for Short Fiction Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
86-001403
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"Tough, menacing stories in which fate and memory exercise their Hardylike sway, all narrated in a variety of inventive and accomplished voices."- San Francisco Examiner, "All the stories are intensely told and skillfully written. Ardizzone has a special capacity for appreciating the values of home and family, of ethnic pride and humor, and of street smarts."- Chicago Magazine, "Tough, menacing stories in which fate and memory exercise their Hardylike sway, all narrated in a variety of inventive and accomplished voices."-- San Francisco Examiner, Tough, menacing stories in which fate and memory exercise their Hardylike sway, all narrated in a variety of inventive and accomplished voices., "Rich. . . . Ardizzone mines fresh fictional veins and displays a stunning stylistic range."- Washington Times, All the stories are intensely told and skillfully written. Ardizzone has a special capacity for appreciating the values of home and family, of ethnic pride and humor, and of street smarts., "Rich. . . . Ardizzone mines fresh fictional veins and displays a stunning stylistic range."-- Washington Times, "All the stories are intensely told and skillfully written. Ardizzone has a special capacity for appreciating the values of home and family, of ethnic pride and humor, and of street smarts."-- Chicago Magazine, "Ardizzone writes a strong, spare prose that quickly sketches characters and situations, yet his work is invested with a deep humanism that compels the reader to see his characters as people-people you care about."- Seattle Times, Ardizzone writes a strong, spare prose that quickly sketches characters and situations, yet his work is invested with a deep humanism that compels the reader to see his characters as people-people you care about., "Ardizzone writes a strong, spare prose that quickly sketches characters and situations, yet his work is invested with a deep humanism that compels the reader to see his characters as people--people you care about."-- Seattle Times, "Tough, menacing stories in which fate and memory exercise their Hardylike sway, all narrated in a variety of inventive and accomplished voices."- Chicago Tribune
Dewey Edition
19
Series Volume Number
73
Dewey Decimal
FIC
Synopsis
Tony Ardizzone writes of the moments in our lives that shine, that burn in the dim expanse of memory with the intensity and vivid light of the evening news. The men and women in these stories tend to arrange their days, order their pasts, plan their futures in the light of such moments, finding epiphanies in the glowing memory of a father's laugh or a mother's repeated story, in a broken date or a rained-out ball game. Set mostly in Chicago's blue-collar neighborhoods, these stories focus on subjects that concern us all: disease and death, vandalism and sacrilege, rape and infidelity, lost love. The husband and wife in the title story look at their pasts-his as an activist in the sixties and hers as a believer in reincarnation and the tarot-in light of the news stories they watch on television each evening and question whether they should bring a child into the world. And in "The Walk-On," a bartender and former varsity pitcher for the University of Illinois Fighting Illini finds the actual events of the most cataclysmic day in his past unequal to their impact on his life and so rewrites them in his mind, adding an ill-placed banana peel, a falling meteor, and a careening truck in order to create a more fitting climax and finally to leave those memories behind him. Searching their pasts for clues to the present, searching the horizons of their days for love, the characters in The Evening News seek, and sometimes find, redemption in a world of uncertainty and brightly burning emotions., Ardizzone writes of the moments in our lives that shine in the dim expanse of memory with the intensity and vivid light of the evening news. Searching their pasts for clues to the present, searching the horizons of their days for love, the characters seek, and sometimes find, redemption in a world of uncertainty and brightly burning emotions., Tony Ardizzone writes of the moments in our lives that shine, that burn in the dim expanse of memory with the intensity and vivid light of the evening news. The men and women in these stories tend to arrange their days, order their pasts, plan their futures in the light of such moments, finding epiphanies in the glowing memory of a father's laugh or a mother's repeated story, in a broken date or a rained-out ball game. Set mostly in Chicago's blue-collar neighborhoods, these stories focus on subjects that concern us all: disease and death, vandalism and sacrilege, rape and infidelity, lost love. The husband and wife in the title story look at their pasts--his as an activist in the sixties and hers as a believer in reincarnation and the tarot--in light of the news stories they watch on television each evening and question whether they should bring a child into the world. And in "The Walk-On," a bartender and former varsity pitcher for the University of Illinois Fighting Illini finds the actual events of the most cataclysmic day in his past unequal to their impact on his life and so rewrites them in his mind, adding an ill-placed banana peel, a falling meteor, and a careening truck in order to create a more fitting climax and finally to leave those memories behind him. Searching their pasts for clues to the present, searching the horizons of their days for love, the characters in The Evening News seek, and sometimes find, redemption in a world of uncertainty and brightly burning emotions.
LC Classification Number
PS3551.R395E9 1986

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