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This Elegant Ruin and other stories

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Love and hate. Dreams and nightmares. Luck and misfortune. In twelve engaging stories, the joys and sorrows of life glow against such varied backdrops as a snowy wood, a quaint country inn, a crumbling metropolis, the shore of Lake Superior, and a lonely country highway. A man in the twilight of his career falls in love with a young woman at the dawn of hers. A girl at the end of her rope finds an unexpected friend in an eccentric stranger. A young man haunted by memories finally gets a chance to forget his troubles. An artist takes stock of his life's work and discovers an unwelcome truth.

With prose that evokes wonder and fear, regret and relief, Erin Bartels draws meaning from the small moments of life, challenging us to be still, to notice, to dream-and to hope.

Author's note --
This elegant ruin --
Beneath the winter weeds --
The beginning and the end --
We shall sometime come to someplace --
One endless summer day --
Water & light --
Drive --
The door --
Clean --
10 degrees cooler in the shade --
The astonishing moment --
Memory man

Pages: 210

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Understory Press

Release: August 29, 2014

ISBN: 0692232729

ISBN 13: 9780692232729

This Elegant Ruin and other stories

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Love and hate. Dreams and nightmares. Luck and misfortune. In twelve engaging stories, the joys and sorrows of life glow against such varied backdrops as a snowy wood, a quaint country inn, a crumbling metropolis, the shore of Lake Superior, and a lonely country highway. A man in the twilight of his career falls in love with a young woman at the dawn of hers. A girl at the end of her rope finds an unexpected friend in an eccentric stranger. A young man haunted by memories finally gets a chance to forget his troubles. An artist takes stock of his life's work and discovers an unwelcome truth.

With prose that evokes wonder and fear, regret and relief, Erin Bartels draws meaning from the small moments of life, challenging us to be still, to notice, to dream-and to hope.

Author's note --
This elegant ruin --
Beneath the winter weeds --
The beginning and the end --
We shall sometime come to someplace --
One endless summer day --
Water & light --
Drive --
The door --
Clean --
10 degrees cooler in the shade --
The astonishing moment --
Memory man

Pages: 210

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Understory Press

Release: August 29, 2014

ISBN: 0692232729

ISBN 13: 9780692232729

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The Door

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Wir hofften auf bessere Zeiten (German Edition)

Clean

Drive

The Beginning and the End

The Astonishing Moment

Everything Is Just Beginning

Water & Light

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