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- Author: Melvin Litton
- Publisher: Spartan Press
- ISBN-10: 1952411912
- ISBN-13: 9781952411915
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 1.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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"In one of Melvin Litton's stories in his latest book of short stories Son of Eve and Other Tales, a still-born child is buried without ceremony in a back yard and foreshadows a murder in an old house years later, maybe in the same place. There is cinematic sudden violence, Kansas-centric tales of careworn nuclear families fierce with promise and love, forbidden darknesses of wind, longing and the chill of regret that seeps through generations. These stories come from the resurrected flatlands of Charlie Starkweather's ghost. They remind me of the "Dirty Realism" of Raymond Carver and Carson McCullers, and not to wring the obvious out of a reference, Sam Shepard. Litton is able to scour the horizons of his tales with scathingly simple phrases: "(the sun) drops like an empty bottle beyond the tall weeds." The spirit of place is in every story. The final chapter is an eloquent paean to his past working life and his perspective belongs to not only the retiree, but the writer who assembled his bones throughout the long years. He worked construction, he made things, it gave a rhythm and ritual to his life that is reflected in every sentence."
-John Macker, author of Atlas of Wolves (2019) and
The Blues Drink Your Dreams Away, Selected
Poems, 1983-2018 (Finalist for an Arizona/New
Mexico Book Award)
-Patricia Traxler, In the Skin (Spartan Press, 2020)
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- Author: Melvin Litton
- Publisher: Spartan Press
- ISBN-10: 1952411912
- ISBN-13: 9781952411915
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 1.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
"In one of Melvin Litton's stories in his latest book of short stories Son of Eve and Other Tales, a still-born child is buried without ceremony in a back yard and foreshadows a murder in an old house years later, maybe in the same place. There is cinematic sudden violence, Kansas-centric tales of careworn nuclear families fierce with promise and love, forbidden darknesses of wind, longing and the chill of regret that seeps through generations. These stories come from the resurrected flatlands of Charlie Starkweather's ghost. They remind me of the "Dirty Realism" of Raymond Carver and Carson McCullers, and not to wring the obvious out of a reference, Sam Shepard. Litton is able to scour the horizons of his tales with scathingly simple phrases: "(the sun) drops like an empty bottle beyond the tall weeds." The spirit of place is in every story. The final chapter is an eloquent paean to his past working life and his perspective belongs to not only the retiree, but the writer who assembled his bones throughout the long years. He worked construction, he made things, it gave a rhythm and ritual to his life that is reflected in every sentence."
-John Macker, author of Atlas of Wolves (2019) and
The Blues Drink Your Dreams Away, Selected
Poems, 1983-2018 (Finalist for an Arizona/New
Mexico Book Award)
-Patricia Traxler, In the Skin (Spartan Press, 2020)
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