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^ Read ^ Someone To Crawl Back To by Phillip Gardner ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Someone To Crawl Back To Structured more like a Robert Altman film than a traditional novel, reading SOMEONE TO CRAWL BACK TO is like going to The Paradise Lounge for a drink, slipping inside a patron¿s skin, going home with that person, then coming back to The Paradise and leaving with another sojourner of love.. SOMEONE TO CRAWL BACK TO is a novel-in-stories, a collection of hearts in search of what they¿ve always wanted or what they¿ve eternally lost. The death of a marriage, Joshua and Rene Serv
| Title | : | Someone To Crawl Back To |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.60 (749 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 188642098X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 164 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-02 |
| Language | : | English |
"This book is basically perfect for that" according to Amazon Customer. I chose this for my Senior project because I was looking for something that would parallel Steinbeck's "The Pastures of Heaven" in some ways. This book is basically perfect for that. The story cycle is really tightly structured, very similarly to the model "Winesburg, Ohio" we're studying in c
Structured more like a Robert Altman film than a traditional novel, reading SOMEONE TO CRAWL BACK TO is like going to The Paradise Lounge for a drink, slipping inside a patron¿s skin, going home with that person, then coming back to The Paradise and leaving with another sojourner of love.. SOMEONE TO CRAWL BACK TO is a novel-in-stories, a collection of hearts in search of what they¿ve always wanted or what they¿ve eternally lost. The death of a marriage, Joshua and Rene Serverance¿s, forms the spine of the book, but included in this small community of seekers are George Scarborough and his softball-playing wife; Evander Baker, who helps his sister bury a bag of chocolate chip cookies near the septic line; and Warren Oxendine, whose wife buys a vibrator at a yard sale. Their common ground is The Paradise Lounge. Set in small town South Carolina, those hearts belong to wrecker drivers, drive-thru fast food workers, college professors, bartenders, insurance and mob
We experience chance exhilarations. It goes on searching for itself, blindly if necessary. We marry and unmarry, see our children by the calendar. We wonder what happens to them, and maybe about what happens to us. Gardner's genius is in making readers value our fictional incarnations as denizens of his gimlet-eyed view of contemporary rural South Carolina: people most of us would avoid in real life. But the heart won't completely yield. This isn't "Cheers" territory--Gardner's mise-en-scene is the gritty apotheosis of the pejorative "small town." Yet it is for this very reason that his stories resonate so. As Gardner writes in his preface: "We form alliances. We find friends and leave them or they leave us. It gives us things to
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