Steven McDermott's "Winter of Different Directions"

$15.95

I've been reading this energetic book off and on because I've also been trying to start a new project - as a result, any fun reading I did felt like procrastinating or slacking. But I couldn't help it - I kept going back to "Winter."

The stories' draw is their brutal honesty and psychological dreariness combined with an unexpected undercurrent of the most incredible hope. In this collection are stories for the working person and stories for those of us stuck on the all-too-common inertia track taking us blindly from adulthood to death while, just before sleep when all the thinking goes on, we wish for the courage to dream.

McDermott also gets very funny, as in the case of "Eiderdown" (my favorite), an intimate - and painfully so - story that had me laughing when, were I the character, I'd probably cry.

"Winter of Different Directions," as a full collection, is one that begs for a second and third reading. CLICK THE ABOVE IMAGE to get your own copy. You can't have mine!

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