In this, Bonnie's sixth story collection, you'll quickly see why Erskine Caldwell called Bonnie's third collection, Too Hot & Other Maine Stories, "a masterful achievement". The praise for Bonnie's work has continued, for Publishers Weekly called him "a master raconteur". Why? Simple enough: Bonnie is a writer who's not afraid to write a story that's a story. With loving strokes he depicts character, plot, conflict, and resolution -- a combination all too hard to find in contemporary short fiction.
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In this, Bonnie's sixth story collection, you'll quickly see why Erskine Caldwell called Bonnie's third collection, Too Hot & Other Maine Stories, "a masterful achievement". The praise for Bonnie's work has continued, for Publishers Weekly called him "a master raconteur". Why? Simple enough: Bonnie is a writer who's not afraid to write a story that's a story. With loving strokes he depicts character, plot, conflict, and resolution -- a combination all too hard to find in contemporary short fiction.
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Good. in Very Good jacket. Ex-library hardcover (usual stamps, stickers) in very good condition with nice dust jacket in sturdy protective mylar; interior excellent--text pages crisp, white, appear unmarked; a very clean, sound copy of this anthology of 12 short stories; 150 pgs.; published by Livingston Press at the University of West Alabama, 1998 (see picture of my book within this description)
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Sylvia Martin (Author photograph) Very good. [8], 150, [2] pages. Decorative cover. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. Inscribed on half-title page. Inscription reads For Steve with gratitude & best wishes. Fred 10/3/99 GSo. Rare double signing. Cover has minor wear and soiling. The Livingston Press specializes in offbeat and Southern literature. In this, Bonnie's sixth story collection, you'll quickly see why Erskine Caldwell called Bonnie's third collection, Too Hot & Other Maine Stories, "a masterful achievement." The praise for Bonnie's work continued, for Publishers Weekly called him "a master raconteur." Why? Simple enough: Bonnie was a writer unafraid to write a story that's a story. With loving strokes he depicted character, plot, conflict, and resolution--a combination all too hard to find in contemporary short fiction. Frederic Joseph Bonnie (born October 11, 1945 in Bridgton, Maine; died May 13, 2000 near Spartanburg, South Carolina) was a novelist and former gardening editor for Southern Living magazine. Bonnie earned a bachelor of arts from the University of Vermont in 1971 and attended several universities over the next few years, working in college libraries from 1966 to 1969 and editing the literary journal Isinglass Review from 1968 to 1974. He worked for Garden Way Publishing in Burlington, Vermont in 1973 before coming to Birmingham in 1974 to work at Southern Living. He left the magazine in 1979 to write fiction while freelancing for Vulcan Materials and for the Dyatron Corporation. Bonnie completed a master of fine arts in creative writing at UAB, and taught fiction writing for UAB Special Studies from 1978 to 1982. From Booklist: Each of these dozen stories is dedicated to an acknowledged master of American fiction, usually one best known for his or her short stories. Indeed, a particular story often seems to echo its dedicatee. The title story, dedicated to O. Henry, has a surprise at its ending. "On the Postcard Road" tells of a cross-country drive, as might be expected of a story "for Jack Kerouac, " though the macabre circumstances of this trip seem like something perhaps out of Flannery O'Connor, the dedicatee of "Those Are the Terms, " which, appropriately enough, is about sex and religion. "The Friends of the Trees" is "for Robert Penn Warren" and echoes his famous novel All the King's Men by being a political story, albeit one wackier and far smaller time than Willie Stark's career. What distinguishes those stories and the other six, too, is their magnetic readability, a result of Bonnie's skill at quickly limning utterly lifelike characterizations, incidents, and dialogue. These are fundamentally comic and optimistic stories, handled so surely that they can lunge toward sentimentality, as "Detecting Metal" does most daringly, and yet achieve emotional truth because everything in them rings so true. Bonnie is a peer of his dedicatees: read him. Ray Olson.