John J. Clayton
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WorksWrestling With Angels: New and Collected Stories
(Toby Press, October, 2007.) The new stories are separate but linked by their emotional music. Most have been published in Commentary; others have been published in Virginia Quarterly Review, Agni, and Missouri Review. PLUS: all the stories from Bodies of the Rich, all the stories from Radiance, and four uncollected stories. Kuperman’s Fire
(Permanent Press, July 2007) Kuperman’s Fire is a novel from a Jewish perspective about the selling of chemical muni¬tions abroad. Against this story, the multiple ways of being Jews in contemporary America play themselves out in the tensions within Michael’s family, a family at the edge of divorce. The Man I Never Wanted to Be
David Rosen is pulled into events that cause him to question his basic beliefs about himself--especially his non-violence. It is also a story of David's love for a woman who runs a center for battered women, a woman whose own child has been killed by an abuser. 1998. Radiance: Ten Stories
Ohio State University Press, 1998 These stories are Jewish in background and religious vision. Stories of fathers and sons, husbands and wives, they hover between the spiritual and the psychological, yet are grounded in painful and joyful realities. "The Contract"
"The Contract" is part of a new collection, THE PROMISED LAND. "Vertigo"
"Vertigo" is part of a new collection, THE PROMISED LAND. |
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