Wisdom of Fools: Stories of Extraordinary Lives
Phil Harvey’s short stories won the Antietam Review award and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His fiction has appeared in over a dozen literary magazines including Phantasmagoria, The MacGuffin, Natural Bridge, and the Dos Passos Review. His first novel, Show Time, was hailed as “a...
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Phil Harvey’s short stories won the Antietam Review award and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His fiction has appeared in over a dozen literary magazines including Phantasmagoria, The MacGuffin, Natural Bridge, and the Dos Passos Review. His first novel, Show Time, was hailed as “a thinking reader’s thriller and a thoroughly entertaining read.” Follow a hard-driving smoke jumper, seven starving reality game-show participants, a virginal surrogate mother, and an enemy combatant in this collection of nuanced contemporary tales.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781935448310 (1935448315)
ASIN: B00TSTHMGE
Publish date: 2015-02-03
Publisher: Lost Coast Press
Pages no: 92
Edition language: English
I was surprised by this collection of short stories. Some of them contain sci-fi and fantasy tones, but all of them are quite gripping. There is a lot of voice in these stories, which will have you laughing, crying, angry or hopeful. The themes are definitely adult - some cursing and sexual encounte...