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West of Love : A Story Cycle by Francis Davis (2017, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBrighthorse Books

ISBN-101944467076

ISBN-139781944467074

eBay Product ID (ePID)241187748

Product Key Features

Book TitleWest of Love : a Story Cycle

Number of Pages212 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), General

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorFrancis Davis

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight8.6 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Reviews"West of Love is a fierce and moving elegy to young love in a world that's about to change, in essential ways, forever. The narrator of these linked stories tries to plumb his life and attachments in the '90s for clues to the man he is in middle age, and he does so in a pungent and obsessive voice that aches with yearning for the mysterious just-beyond. A memorable debut collection by a writer who knows how to get to the heart of it."--Deirdre McNamer, author of Red Rover "Francis Davis has horses to spare, a thousand of them under a sleek hood, and when you get in the muscle car called West Philly, it will set a burn in you like none other! The stories in this fast, clean, engine of a book are powerful, all-American in their existential sweep, ironic undertow, and miraculous facility with the crucible called life. Get ready for torque, wonder, desolation, and transcendence. This one is on fire!--Shann Ray, author of Balefire and winner of the American Book Award Rarely is the self-examination of a character's past rendered with such unabashed clarity as in these rich and heartfelt stories. In Stewart Simmons, the narrator of these linked stories, Davis has created a true to life character whose vulnerable willingness to speak honestly about the complexities of sexual identity, love and the interior workings of the human heart feels revelatory. The stories will stay with you, long after the book has been put down.--Daryl Farmer, author of Where We Land

SynopsisStaring down heartbreak and regret, Stewart Simmons, flees a haunted Philadelphia for the beauty of the West. In a raw, yet lyrical, voice that gives life to the urgency and appetites of youth, West of Love takes place in a time before the internet, before cell phones, before technology changed the ways we live and love. And as an older Stewart looks candidly back at his younger self, a picture of the human heart emerges--one that offers a testament to how we heal, how we go on., The stories in Francis Davis's West of Love trace the path through the American West of love gone and love gone wrong.