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Sorry I Worried You: Stories

Sorry I Worried You: Stories

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In these twelve intelligent tales, seasoned poet and story writer Gary Fincke reconciles lost hope and quiet despair with small blessings and ultimate redemption. In his world, as easily as one man becomes a hero, another is riddled with failure. Fincke weaves together the large and small tragedies of daily life to create an inescapable, yet at times oddly comforting, reality. His characters inhabit a world of strip malls and fast-food joints, low-down jobs and physical ailments, lottery tickets and cheap beer. Here, everyone and everything is suspicious, and only the luck of the draw determines who, if anyone, will survive.

In the title story, Ben, a fifty-year-old bookstore clerk facing the possibility of prostate cancer, feels his life spiraling out of control as he endures his female doctor's examinations with childlike embarrassment on the one hand and struggles to conceal his age from his teenybopper coworkers on the other. Ben's only consolation is that "every day he heard about something a hundred times worse." In "Gatsby, Tender, Paradise," Bridgeford encounters a group of lightning strike and electrocution victims and feels lucky to have survived several light-switch shocks--the same type of shocks that have permanently disabled one man in the group. Such are the small but important blessings that ultimately rescue Fincke's characters from despair. Here at last is someone who can articulate both our constant, mortal desire to transcend ordinary experience and our simultaneous comfort in the unremarkable and familiar.

Author: Gary Fincke
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 03/01/2013
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780820345017

About the Author
Gary Fincke is a professor of English and the director of the Writer's Institute at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. He is the author of many collections of poems and short stories, including "The Stone Child: Stories and Writing Letters for the Blind," which won the 2003 Ohio State University Press/"The Journal" Poetry Prize. Fincke is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, the George Garrett Fiction Prize, and the PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize.

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