Russell Wangersky grabs readers by the scruff and yanks them into Walt's character, somehow transforming the character-soaked novel into a page-turner. "I swear I’m not going to become one of those people who goes around talking to myself, dazzling my own constantly appreciative audience of one. I...
Usually the title of a short story collection is taken from the title of one of the stories it contains.Not this one. None of the stories are called “Whirl Away”.But they do all represent people whirling away in some form or another. They lose control, and can only follow the rule of centripetal f...
These stories turn on moments in which their characters are yanked from their everyday existences.That ordinary, day-to-day life?It's there, and the reader understands its dimensions, but the focus is elsewhere."Hard, steady work, and no money in it either. When there was fish, there was no price fo...
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