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Collected Stories
The first collection of the short stories of Harry Mark Petrakis was nominated for a National book Award in Fiction, establishing him as a master of the form. Revealing commentaries by the author introduce each story in this collection.In The Passing of the Ice, Polish icemen suffer the fate of some great doomed Greek line. In The Song of Rhodanthe a fleeting vision of love flowers within a grim social prison. In The journal of a Wife Beater an insufferable chauvinist male discovers to his horror and bodily peril, that is wife is younger and stronger than he is.
372 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1987
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November 5, 2019
I borrowed this book from the library (different cover art, but the same collection) b/c I'd read The Journal of a Wife Beater before and loved it, so I wanted to explore other works by this writer. What a disappointment! I couldn't find one other story to say a good word about. I honestly didn't read all of them but those I did are pretty darn bad. They're mostly about sex; there is really not much else, and I am not fond of this topic, especially when it's the centerpiece of a work. The Journal of a Wife Beater remains a great story, a witty, biting satire on machismo, but one story is not enough for me to give more than one star to the whole collection. Taking the book back to the library.
January 4, 2021
A collection of wonderful stories by one of the great writers.
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