How It Was for Me
Stories
by Andrew Sean Greer
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"The characters in these stories struggle against loss. In the title story, four lonely suburban boys gather in a toolshed and, convinced that their piano teachers are witches, plan to build a bizarre machine to cure their lives. In "Cannibal Kings," a disillusioned young man accompanies a boy on a tour of prep schools through the Pacific Northwest, growing increasingly unnerved by his strange companion and, equally, by himself.
And in "Come Live with Me and Be My Love," a middle-aged gentleman looks back on his thirty-year marriage to a vivacious woman, arranged to escape the censure of his family, and his too-late understanding of love."--BOOK JACKET.
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In the title story of this collection, neighborhood boys crouch in a backyard toolshed, and conspire to prove their piano teachers to be witches. In "Cannibal Kings," a disillusioned young man accompanies a troubled boy on a tour of prep schools through the Pacific Northwest, only to realize that he has lost his way in life. And in "Come Live With Me And Be My Love," a middle-aged gentleman looks back at his mannered early life as a Ivy Leaguer, married to a vivacious woman but silently yearning for his best friend -- and the sacrifices that each made to uphold their compromising bargain.
With a classic storyteller's gift for nuance and understanding, and a poet's grace for language, Andrew Sean Greer makes a remarkable debut with How It Was For Me.
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