‘Exquisite short stories that give me hope.’ John Mc Nally, author of The Book of Ralph: A Novel
In Universally Adored and Other One Dollar Stories, Elizabeth Bruce gives readers 33 ways of looking at a dollar. Her empathetic, humorous, and disarming embrace of plain-spoken people searching for a way out, charms and provokes. These are bittersweet stories of resilience and defiance.
In ‘Universally Adored, ‘ a color-obsessed artist draws a facsimile of a dollar-a masterpiece universally adored-to win her girlfriend back. While checking for spare change in the laundry, in ‘Bald Tires’ a Tennessee housewife with a malcontent husband finds an unused condom in his Sunday trousers. In ‘The Forgiveness Man, ‘ a runaway teen with a newborn follows a vagabond healer absolving the bedraggled godless through hugs of forgiveness. And in ‘Magic Fingers, a ladies’ room attendant tracked down by her abusive ex finds refuge in a cheap motel with a 1970s era bed massager.
Riffing on the intimate object of a dollar, Bruce’s humane short fictions-from a great mashed potato war to the grass Jesus walked on-ring with the exquisite voices of characters in analog worlds.
A propos de l’auteur
Washington-DC-based Texas author Elizabeth Bruce’s debut novel, And Silent Left the Place, won Washington Writers’ Publishing House’s Fiction Award and distinctions from Fore Word Magazine and Texas Institute of Letters. She’s published in USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Malawi, India, Yemen, and The Philippines, A co-founder of Sanctuary Theatre, her bilingual book, Centro Nia’s Theatrical Journey Playbook: Introducing Science to Early Learners through Guided Pretend Play, garnered four indie awards. She’s received DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and Mc Carthey Dressman Education Foundation Fellowships and studied with Richard Bausch, Lee K. Abbott, Janet Peery, John Mc Nally, and Liam Callanan. Discsover more at elizabethbrucedc.com.Plus d’ebooks du même auteur(s) / Éditeur
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