Bøger af Timothy Dodd

Presenting the land and life of his native West Virginia, Timothy Dodd probes the complex and fragile lives of men in their darkest shadows. With fierce characterizations rooted in Appalachian settings and mindedness, these stories reject the clear dreams and simple paths to redemption, focusing instead on the struggles to navigate and find conscience. Nesting in the somber conflicts, however, thrive strong moments of vision, humor, and the truth of experience, all hanging under a canopy of myth and symbol, the land and the past-often relegated in the minds of men, but vital nonetheless. Showing that darkness and light, life and death, are not so distinct from each other, the collection flashes its paradox in the title itself: Men in Midnight Bloom are tales pushing into not only the heart of loss and destruction, but also the long and precarious search for place and understanding in the modern world. Cowboy Jamboree Press

"Timothy Dodd�s stories, set mostly in West Virginia towns and in the shallow country bordering the deep country of forest and farms, are likely to remind readers of other writers, Breece Pancake and Gurney Norman; but Dodd is his own man. His stories offer surprising new takes, like the sleight of hand at the end of �Postcards,� a tale about leaving home. From first story to last, Dodd reveals how tentative are the lines between hope and despair, past and present, and life and death. The fissures in these stories are both wounds and means of escape, deftly wrought and lit with a sly humor that doesn�t force itself on anyone." Eddy Pendarvis, author of Ghost Dance Poems