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Gary, a Four-Eyed Fairy and Other Stories is a collection of a dozen brief stories that were published over a years in college journals, literary magazines, and anthologies while Frank Mundo wrote his award-winning novel-in-verse The Brubury Tales. All of a stories in this collection concentration on a life and times of J.T. Glass (the anecdotist of The Brubury Tales), a Los Angeles confidence ensure who has an supernatural knack for anticipating difficulty and descending in love--often during a same time.
In many of a stories, J.T. is challenged with dignified decisions that travel a spare line between amusement and tragedy. In "Remorse" J.T. is forced to understanding with a co-worker secretly indicted of date rape and a pang grandmother who asks him to kill her. In "A Friend in Need" J.T. discovers some offensive secrets about his roommate who dies in a automobile collision and leaves J.T. behind to collect adult a pieces. In a pretension story of a collection, a story about high-school bullying you'll never forget, J.T. recognizes Gary Naysmith, an aged familiarity from high school, who usually attacked a bank where J.T. works, and leaves J.T. badly beaten and hardly unwavering on a floor.
Some of a stories residence events from J.T.'s childhood, from humorous and unpleasant pranks by family members to a horrific waste of a amatory and learned grandmother with Alzheimer’s. Some stories residence J.T.'s complete disagreement of women and his relations with them. One story has J.T. watchful for fat and spare college letters while another shows J.T being forced to take a drug exam for his comparison brother.
Finally, this special book also includes Bonus Material--the General Prologue to Frank Mundo's Brubury Tales, where we continue a story of J.T. Glass in this complicated Los Angeles chronicle of Chaucer's classical Canterbury Tales.
Stories enclose violence, adult language, and adult situations.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #260843 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-07-17
- Released on: 2011-07-17
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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"Ordinarily this was ostensible to be a time when students were ostensible to willingly try 'constructive criticism,' given partial of a category was about training to do usually that, though there was no constructive critique that we remember, since Frank Mundo was a kind of chairman who already knew how to write and what to write -- knew it in his bones. You could contend his poetry was perfect, and you'd be positively right on a money." - Carolyn See of The Washington Post (from a foreword to The Brubury Tales)
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10 of 10 people found a following examination helpful.
Nailing a "Voice"
By Tui Allen
Warning! Spoiler. (but usually for one small story from this collection.)
Only examination a initial half of a stories nonetheless had to do a review. Enjoyed a initial few stories and suspicion he was illusory during conveying literary "voice." At initial we suspicion we competence find a mood too unrelentingly staid nonetheless afterwards we examination a story called "Day during a Beach." It gives a change and one of a many fortifying stories I've read. They contend that one of a biggest skills an author can possess is to spike a "voice" of childhood. Frank Mundo has finished it in this story. It will haunt me for a prolonged time in a pleasant way. If we were still training I'd go true to propagandize and try this one out on kids. we consider they'd adore all a BS from a large brother. we reckon they'd totally moment up. But don't get me wrong - these stories are for adults, nonetheless kids competence suffer that one.
The unpredictability! After all a preceding stories, we suspicion a large hermit dictated to half drown him. WRONG! These kids are so real, so cold and so friendly nonetheless wicked. I'm a convert.
The "sensing" of a sea is perfect. This so nails a wildness, a scariness, a beauty of a sea and all by a wondering eyes of childhood.
Now I'm off to examination a stories we haven't even got to yet.
8 of 8 people found a following examination helpful.
These stories are so full of Soul!
By ?wazithinkin
I was totally drawn into these realistic, heartwarmingly, and infrequently comfortless tellurian stories. we think these are semi-autobiographic; they are so full of soul. These are stories from J. T. Glass' life, a night confidence ensure in Los Angeles, who has ambitions to be a writer. Frank Mundo has unequivocally succeeded here in this book. we demeanour brazen to reading The Brubury Tales, nonetheless we contingency acknowledge that we am a small intimidated by his utilizing iambic pentameter. we will many expected examination anything Frank Mundo writes; he has genuine talent, and a good destiny forward of him.
edited to scold a word, LOL, we unequivocally do need an editor!
7 of 7 people found a following examination helpful.
Beautifully written
By mountainmama
This is a array of brief tales formed on a same character, J T, as he stumbles his approach by life. From childhood to adulthood, we are unprotected to each arrange of insinuate suspicion as he tells stories of dignified dilemmas, annoying moments, and other noted times. You watch as he wrestles with his possess demur while doing varying degrees of highlight in bland life.
Frank Mundo's essay character is pristine art, with an implausible ability to see and report each shade so ideally that he army a reader to knowledge a emotions, design a setting, and live a story. He simply switches from amusement to darkness, and can bleed laugh-out-loud chuckles as good as tears.
The artistic writing, superb editing, and engaging stories make this a contingency read. Job good done, Mr. Mundo - bravo!!
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