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The author describes his characters as people who, though they earn little money, are not quite working poor--nor can they work without working hard. They do not know quite how to betray or abandon each other. Mostly, they try to love and do not readily shy from duty. Though Allman's narratives run from stark naturalism to the near magical and the out-and-out futuristic, his imagination holds to the everyday--as if to say to his readers: Yes, life is grim, but it is precisely the unbearable that becomes the ground for healing.

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The eight short stories in John Allman's Descending Fire comprise a loose chronicle in the lives of working-class and immigrant New Yorkers, from the 1950s to the present. The author describes his characters as people who, though they earn little money, are not quite poor - nor can they work without working hard. They do not know quite how to betray or abandon each other. Mostly, they try to love and do not readily shy from duty. Though Allman's narratives run from stark naturalism to the near magical and the out-and-out futuristic, his imagination holds to the everyday - as if to say to his readers: Yes, life is grim, but it is precisely the unbearable that becomes the fantastic and the ground for healing.

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Title Descending Fire and Other Stories
Author John Allman
Binding Hardback
Edition First Edition
Pages 168
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, New York
Publication date 1994
ISBN 9780811212748 / 0811212742
Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
Dimensions 8.32 x 5.61 x 0.95 in (21.13 x 14.25 x 2.41 cm)
Category Fiction - General
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 94006746
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/1994, Page 858
Publishers Weekly, 08/08/1994, Page 382

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