Dancing to the End of the Shining Bar: A Novel

By Whitney Scott

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962103926
• ISBN13: 9780962103926
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Outrider Press
• Length: 157 Pages

Customer Reviews

A spare, funny, searing story.

"Scott writes with honesty and deep affection for life's ragged edges....With no trace of polemic or bombast, but with a full range of sound, sense and emotion, DANCING TO THE END OF THE SHINING BAR is a spare,funny, searing story."

Offers humor and pathos, and hope for the human heart.

"Both sad and funny, this is a sister's sroty of her brother, and also of herself. For anyone who has been touched by the plague of our times, DANCING TO THE END OF THE SHINING BAR offers humor and pathos, and hope for the human heart."

Family vignettes of soul searching which soar.

"The author laces pathos with humor in family vignettes...of soul searching which soar."

Whitney Scott's novel nourishes us.

"Whitney Scott has written a deeply moving and finely wrought novel about the true voices families use amongst themselves; in silence, in pain, in joy, and in the smallest mercies shared. Hoer characters become our own mother, father, brother, sister. Searingly honest, and yet full of immense compassion...DANCING TO THE END OF THE SHINING BAR is about the continual, all-encompassing journey to an understanding of who we are and what our deepest graces in life are - courage, endurance and love. Whitney Scott's novel nourishes us, our deepest roots in this passionate work full of rollicking humor and almost unbearable pathos. So memorable is this family in the throes of uneasy transformation that we liken it to our own."