Something That Feels Like Truth (Switchgrass) by Donald Lystra PDF

By Donald Lystra

ISBN-10: 0875806937

ISBN-13: 9780875806938

Named a Michigan amazing publication for 2014 by way of the Library of Michigan
Winner of the 2014 Midwest e-book Award for brief fiction
Gold medal recipient for "Best neighborhood Fiction" from the self reliant Publishers IPPY awards

Reflecting the original insights of an engineer who started writing fiction overdue in existence, those and the opposite tales in Donald Lystra's Something That sounds like Truth take us on a page-turning trip throughout the American heartland to as far-off as Paris. In fierce yet delicate prose, Lystra writes approximately traditional humans navigating life's tough boundaries---of age and love and family---and occasionally discovering redemption within the face of searing remorse. even though spanning part a century, those are well timed tales that talk concerning the limits we position on ourselves, either from worry and for the sake of these we adore, and of our willingness to confront change.

From the writer: Donald Lystra's first novel, Season of Water and Ice, was once the winner of the 2009 Midwest publication Award for fiction, creating a great exposure splash for our fiction imprint, Switchgrass, which proudly released it. The e-book garnered plenty of exposure too, earing compliment for Switchgrass within the pages of the Cleveland simple Dealer, the Minneapolis celebrity Tribune, the Detroit loose Press, Time Out Chicago journal, and different venues. This quantity gathers a bracing choice of brief tales via Lystra which are greatly minimize from an identical textile as his hugely acclaimed novel. The tales in Something That appears like Truth confound anticipated plot turns, and Lystra develops his characters patiently and of course, bringing them into convincing and sincere activities. Lystra used to be a profession engineer sooner than retiring and launching a moment occupation as a author: i love to imagine this is because his fiction operates with such mathematical precision. each plot aspect in each tale the following holds a vital part within the imbuing of its attractiveness and that means. you can even inform Lystra has learn loads of Hemingway and Chekov: and that he aspires to be an heir in their successfully concise culture. yet there is a contact of Cheever in Lystra's tales besides: what that grasp storyteller did for the suburbs of latest York, Lystra does for the Midwest.

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