Excitable Women Damaged Men

by Robert Boyers

Book Overview

These astonishing stories deal with people in crisis or at turning points in their lives. Possessed by moods they barely understand, these characters confront moments of choice that determine their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188558640X
• ISBN13: 9781885586407
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Turtle Point Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Savagely Honest Yet Compassionate

Robert Boyers, the well established literary critic and editor of SALMAGUNDI MAGAZINE, turns out to be a high voltage fiction writer who makes us laugh out loud even as he describes his wound-up, often suffering, characters and puts them through their paces. The title story is almost shocking in its painful details from the life of a less than perfect adult son and his neurotically repellant mother. The vitality of every line of Boyers' prose keeps us turning the pages of this stunning collection of stories and his characters --who are sometimes both excitable and damaged--are always worth our sympathy and attention.