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Return to Emptiness
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Product Details
Author:
Chris Ransick
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
226
Publisher:
Bower House (June 27, 2012)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9780971367869
ISBN-10:
0971367868
Weight:
10.35oz
Dimensions:
5.5" x 8.5" x 0.85"
File:
Eloquence-SimonSchuster_06032026_P10163223_onix30_Complete-20260603.xml
Folder:
Eloquence
List Price:
$16.00
As low as:
$13.76
Publisher Identifier:
P-SS
Discount Code:
C
Audience:
General/trade
Pub Discount:
65
Imprint:
Bower House
Case Pack:
36
Overview
A Colorado Book Award finalist, A Return to Emptiness is a collection of short stories about life, loss, and love. In Ransick's words, "Loss is common to us all, yet multifarious in individual experience. I wrote these stories not primarily to describe loss but to circumscribe it--which is to say that I drew a circle of narratives round the experience to both locate and limit it. I was vaguely aware of this at the time of the writing. It's quite clear now. "Nobody gets out of this life without experiencing loss, as well as what is offered in recompense to those with the humility and quietude to accept emptiness. Stories are an ancient way of communicating experience and a collection of short fiction is a unique and complex symbol set that can, in the best cases, fill a void, turn loss to gain. If I had my way, this book would do that for the reader."
