This, a collection of short stories, explores the experience of love, lost love, remembrance, defiance, fear, regret, hurt, anger, death, hope, rage, observation, guilt, blame, the main character has from an early teenage life and on. There he is reading at late forty, in "SWAK", love letters he has kept since fifteen, and realizes again why he is still single. When he reads the names of some Junior High school classmates on the new war memorial in his New England boyhood town in "Stone Names," after being re-visited by some personal experiences from his youth, he is struck by how a name, cut in stone, can have such an affect on him when he reads who is on the Vietnam column. In, "Among the Old," he has gotten lost with his girlfriend and has taken refuge in a resort for elderly people. But it is his preoccupation with the past that threatens his relationship with her when he wakes up early in the morning and imagines the elderly people lining up for an early morning exercise are inmates in a Nazi concentration camp, and the muscular looking man who has given them the room a camp commandant.
A young boy creates an imaginary seesaw he uses to weigh out the good and the bad he experiences as he struggles through his early teenage years in a suburban environment in the 1950s.
This is a seasonal book, starting with spring and returning to spring, during which, three boys, living in an orphanage home in southern Norway during the late 1940's, learn the value of work and play as they do chores on the farm that is part of the home and go to school. And when one of them is drawn to the character of an older, carefree, scheming boy who lives with his father outside the home, he, in more than one incident, finds himself duped by the boy, and schemes to get back at him.
This is a story of a group of teenagers coming to Oklahoma in the late 1950s to redeem an inherited guilt by building a meetinghouse for an Indian tribe and evil, in the form of a comical old man, trying to stop them.
When the son of a nearby neighbor brings a plate of food to a local farmer during the Christmas holiday season in the late 70's, he is shocked to believe that the farmer might have wanted to end his life by freezing to death. While the farmer's son fires up the old woodstove in the room he is in and brings in wood, he asks about an old black and white photograph of a short, stout woman he has seen pinned on the wall. The farmer tells him the history of his family and the farming community that was established when his grandfather came back from the Civil War. And he goes back home imagining how it might have been and remembers his own early teenage years on Mt. Lake in northwestern Connecticut as a way of life he and the farmer have lost.
When the son of a nearby neighbor brings a plate of food to a local farmer during the Christmas holiday season in the late 70's, he is shocked to believe that the farmer might have wanted to end his life by freezing to death. While the farmer's son fires up the old woodstove in the room he is in and brings in wood, he asks about an old black and white photograph of a short, stout woman he has seen pinned on the wall. The farmer tells him the history of his family and the farming community that was established when his grandfather came back from the Civil War. And he goes back home imagining how it might have been and remembers his own early teenage years on Mt. Lake in northwestern Connecticut as a way of life he and the farmer have lost.
This is a story of a group of teenagers coming to Oklahoma in the late 1950s to redeem an inherited guilt by building a meetinghouse for an Indian tribe and evil, in the form of a comical old man, trying to stop them.
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