"One of the most extraordinary autobiographies I've ever encountered. It is unimpeachably honest, insightful, intimate, touching. The interpolation of war stories and war facts works and will have particular meaning for people of my generation, whose childhood was penetrated by the war in so many ways. An exceptional book." Robert Wexelblatt
Robert Wexelblatt is an accomplished fiction writer, essayist, and poet. Among his books is Life in the Temperate Zone, and Other Stories, which Fred Marchant, writing in the Harvard Book Review, described as a volume of "fine and gentle stories." Wexelblatt's style in this 1990 publication is rather demanding, for he employs a rich vocabulary and shows a penchant for the more intellectual, and somewhat absurd, aspects of life. The fourteen-story volume includes a tale in which a professor notes ties between Edgar Allan Poe and baseball; one featuring a musicology student who studies under a professional wrestler; and another about an aging professor determined to dissuade a former student from suicide. Marchant praised the book, "[The book] is laden with wit, wry observation, gentle sarcasm, and wicked ironies."
My Father's War Stories. As Told By Toys.
My dear friend, artist, storyteller, play advocate and copywriter, Sheena Greer, gifted me with some cover ideas. They weren't, in the end, used by the publisher (Pelekinesis also had good ideas). But I loved Sheena's solutions! CLICK to enlarge any image.