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Elmore Leonard said about Jack Driscolls stories, "The guy can really write." And in The Goat Fish and the Lovers Knot, he once again demonstrates in every sentence the grace and grit of a true storyteller. The ten stories are mostly set in Michigans northern lower peninsula, a landscape as gorgeous as it is severe. If at times the situations in these stories appear hopeless, the characters nonetheless, and even against seemingly impossible odds, dare to hope. These fictional individuals are so compassionately rendered that they can hardly help but be, in the hands of this writer, not only redeemed but made universal. The stories are written from multiple points of view and testify to Driscolls range and understanding of human nature, and to how "the heart in conflict with itself" always defines the larger, more meaningful story. A high school pitching sensation loses his arm in a public school classroom during show and tell. A woman lives all of her ages in one day. A fourteen-year-old boy finds himself alone after midnight in a rowboat in the middle of the lake with his best friends mother. Driscoll is a prose stylist of the highest order a voice as original as the stories he te

Author

Jack Driscoll

Publisher

Detroit: Wayne State University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814342954

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.85 / 5 (13 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13