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Good-Bye, Son and Other Stories Hardback - 1986

Name: Good-bye, Son and Other Stories
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Author: Lewis, Janet
ISBN: 9780804008679

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Good-bye, Son and Other Stories, Janet Lewis's only collection of short fiction, was first published in 1946, but remains as quietly haunting today as it was then. Set in small communities of the upper Midwest and northern California in the '30s and '40s, these midcentury gems focus on the quiet cycles connecting youth and age, despair and hope, life and death. A mother's encounters with her deceased son, an aging woman sitting with the new knowledge of her troubled older sister's death, and a teenager disillusioned by her own mortality are among the characters, mostly women and girls, whom Lewis delivers. Her understated style and knack for unadorned observation embed us with them as they reckon with the disquieting forces--incomprehensible and destructive to some, enlightening to others--that move us from birth, through life, to death. In the process, Lewis has crafted a paean to the living.

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Title Good-Bye, Son and Other Stories
Author Janet Lewis
Binding Hardback
Edition First revised ed
Pages 224
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Swallow Press, Athens, Ohio and London
Publication date 1986-06
ISBN 9780804008679 / 0804008671
Dimensions 7 x 5 x 1 in (17.78 x 12.70 x 2.54 cm)
Category Fiction - General
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 85027731
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Janet Lewis was a novelist, poet, and short-story writer whose literary career spanned almost the entire twentieth century. The New York Times has praised her novels as "some of the 20th century's most vividly imagined and finely wrought literature." Born and educated in Chicago, she lived in California for most of her adult life and taught at both Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. Her works include The Wife of Martin Guerre (1941), The Trial of Sren Qvist (1947), The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron (1959), Good-Bye, Son and Other Stories (1946), and Poems Old and New (1982).

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