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In this collection of stories, Dennis Sweet weaves together autobiography and fantasy to produce a tapestry of memories and moods, reflecting life in a small Missouri community during the 1960s. The contents range from innocent, coming-of-age stories to darker, more sinister tales. Readers familiar with the author's earlier novel, Piney Parish: A Biofantasy (2018), will find here the backstories of several of the characters featured there.Overshadowing all, innocent and sinister alike, is the mysterious man whose face is masked with a blue bandana-the Sack Man. Like the book itself, he appears as sometimes sinister, sometimes innocent: an ever-present presence, both known and enigmatic. For better or for worse, everyone eventually falls under the long shadow of the Sack Man.
In this collection of stories, Dennis Sweet weaves together autobiography and fantasy to produce a tapestry of memories and moods, reflecting life in a small Missouri community during the 1960s. The contents range from innocent, coming-of-age stories to darker, more sinister tales. Readers familiar with the author's earlier novel, Piney Parish: A Biofantasy (2018), will find here the backstories of several of the characters featured there.Overshadowing all, innocent and sinister alike, is the mysterious man whose face is masked with a blue bandana-the Sack Man. Like the book itself, he appears as sometimes sinister, sometimes innocent: an ever-present presence, both known and enigmatic. For better or for worse, everyone eventually falls under the long shadow of the Sack Man.
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