This Side of Water
Stories
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Regal House Publishing LLC
Published:26th Apr '19
Should be back in stock very soon
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In This Side of Water, Maureen Pilkington’s bright debut collection, precise and vivid language delivers flawed characters to their moments of reckoning. A married woman goes to the cemetery to resurrect her father; a young girl at a beach club witnesses her parents’ infidelity; an icy New Year’s Eve leads a devoted husband to violent clarity; a teenager spies on her mother and a Catholic priest; a Russian “dancer” visits her American husband and plays a dangerous game. In these sixteen stories, the backdrop of water—the Long Island Sound, the sulfur polluted Monangahela River, a koi pond, a basin of holy water, a tear in a boy’s eye—provides a salve for these characters, ferrying them to personal ports of renewal and resolution.
"Readers of [Pilkington's] stories will occasionally see glimpses of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone. Turns out that Pilkington was a Zone rerun junkie. Characters develop quickly and style shifts from story to story. Pilkington knows the writer doesn't have time to lure a reader with short stories and must (sorry) dive right in. She does not miss many dives." Tom McDermott, Rye Record
ISBN: 9781947548749
Dimensions: 215mm x 9mm x 139mm
Weight: unknown
210 pages