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Eleven short stories that unfold the illusions and truths of love, by a writer of enormous talent and style.
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Marital slippage, student-teacher relationships, love or failure to connect, and homophobia are some of the themes in Huddle's ( Only the Little Bone ) finely crafted, intertwined stories. Gangling saxophonist Billy Hyatt faces a teenage paternity dispute, decided on a coin toss, in "Playing," a wry look at adolescent sexuality and growing up in the 1950s. We meet Billy again in the title story, by then a college sophomore in Virginia, coping with his band manager's obsessive extracurricular mating with high-school students. Huddle brings empathetic humor and gimlet insight to unusual situations: a disheveled artist gets an Episcopalian deaconess to pose nude for him; a married musician's sexual feelings for a lesbian trumpet student blind him to her suicidal impulses; a Boston stripper of American Indian descent maintains her dignity under the scrutiny of a young Harvard sociologist doing field research. Several of these 11 stories succeed by quiet understatement, such as "Underwater Spring," in which a mother abandons her small son to the care of his great-aunts.
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"The High Spirits explores a special territory-- something of a frontier-- that is distinct from the short story, the novella and the novel. Beyond 'linked stories,' it lacks a name. Nevertheless, it is a territory of subtle beauty and many possibilities. And it is a place where Mr. Huddle clearly finds himself at home." --The New York Times Book Review
"Huddle is a master of a prose so clean you can see it shine. It is the vehicle to any insight the reader may come to, and yet it hides from its own insights with the same guileless honesty that makes the characters reveal themselves. It packs a powerful-- and moral-- punch." --Judith Kitchen, Prairie Schooner
"An altogether excellent cycle of stories. . . No merchant of existential dread or suburban anxiety, Huddle's work is a refreshing antidote to much of what passes for contemporary fiction." --Newsday
"Huddle is a master of a prose so clean you can see it shine. It is the vehicle to any insight the reader may come to, and yet it hides from its own insights with the same guileless honesty that makes the characters reveal themselves. It packs a powerful-- and moral-- punch." --Judith Kitchen, Prairie Schooner
"An altogether excellent cycle of stories. . . No merchant of existential dread or suburban anxiety, Huddle's work is a refreshing antidote to much of what passes for contemporary fiction." --Newsday
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- PublisherDavid R. Godine, Publisher
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 087923735X
- ISBN 13 9780879237356
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages259
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