These eleven quintessentially American stories fully demonstrate our unstinting capacity for love and loss. As The Atlantic Monthly's C. Michael Curtis puts it, "Tom Bailey's characters live in a world of deceptive simplicity. They move from job to job and in and out of prison, struggle to . . . understand loving attachment, make crucial misjudgments, defend . . . what they believe are manly virtues, and absorb deep . . . disappointments."
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Of beauty and the senses:
Bailey's language is of beauty and the senses, each scene surrounding the reader, evoking new feelings from events common and no so common. Whether Bailey speaks in the voice of a woman, an adolescent boy, a bigoted prison guard, or of what is "free" in the voice of an African-American pilot, or one of the other men whom we are glad to have known, each voice rings true. The characters in the first story are brought back with grace and beauty in his first published novel THE GRACE THAT KEEPS THIS WORLD. Amen... more info
Tom Bailey is Worth Checking Out!:
"Crow Man" is an excellent collection of short fiction. Bailey's writing sucks the reader into the story, making it feel as if you ARE the main character. "Snow Dreams," the first story in the book, is gutwrenching. His profound understanding of how to craft a story is remarkable. Aspiring writers would be wise to also check out "On Writing Short Stories" and "A Short Story Writer's Companion." Look for Bailey's writing to really take off in popularity in the near future.
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