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Title: The Book of Right and Wrong
Subtitle: Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction
Author: Matt Debenham
Narrator: Colin MacQueen
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-10-12
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Matt Debenham's stories are for people who think they don't like short stories. These stories don't leave off in mid-breath; instead, they feature characters who seem to live on even after their closing pages. The humor in The Book of Right and Wrong makes the jarring moments that much more jarring, and the tender moments that much more tender.
At once heartbreaking and hilarious, the 11 stories in The Book of Right and Wrong capture their characters at the defining moments of their lives. A mother finds herself defending her son's biggest bully from a tormentor of his own; a young man watches as his cape-wearing former high-school classmate proves himself more adept at making friends; a social worker gambles everything on expediting an adoption-and causes unforeseen consequences for every person in her life; a boy standing in for Jimmy Carter in his elementary school's mock-election inadvertently starts a bloody playground war; an ex-con single father finds himself on the inside of his town's social circle, with no clue as to how the game is played.
With lively storytelling and empathy to spare, The Book of Right and Wrong defies the notion that full, memorable characters live only in novels.
Critic Reviews:
"This is a stunning debut from a distinctive new presence in American storytelling, among the best collections I have read." (Amy Greene, author of Bloodroot)
"Outrageous, tender, hilarious, bewildered: Matt Debenham's The Book of Right and Wrong is so full of life that it's a miracle the binding can hold it all together. A spectacular debut." (Paul Lisicky, author of Lawnboy and Famous Builder)
Members Reviews:
Compact, evocative, lyrical.
Matt Debenham knows how to evoke characters and moods in a minuscule amount of space. His collection of short stories lives at ground level, in a broken-in world that never feels contrived. The quirks and twists that come and go throughout this collection are never there for show. Just like the oddities and grotesqueness that inevitably happen to you or me in the course of living and interacting with real people in the real world seem, in hindsight, to be inexorable. Is there drama? Yes, some of it bordering on the horrific. Is there pathos? Yes, gut-wrenching emotions in spades. The characters that populate Debenham's stories are most of all real. Flawed, loving, oblivious, cruel, misguided, hopeful, tragic though they may be they are never cardboard cut outs. The worst and best thing I can say about this book is it doesn't overstay it's welcome, it pulls up to your driveway and unloads its cargo, then rumbles off to parts unknown, leaving you wanting more. Like a lot of other aspects of life, sometimes, you just get what you get. The comfort here is that Mr. Debenham will continue to produce quality work like this for years to come.
"Roller Coaster" Isn't Right
As I was reading this The Book of Right and Wrong, I kept thinking of how to describe it, and kept coming to the cliche of a reader "going on a roller-coaster ride" -- as back-to-back stories can be so different from one another. Funny stories, tragic ones, stories of social ignorance.
And by threading these together, The Book of Right and Wrong assembles a weird community of stories about the truest people dealing with the unfortunate realities of life.
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Title: The Book of Right and Wrong
Subtitle: Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction
Author: Matt Debenham
Narrator: Colin MacQueen
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-10-12
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Matt Debenham's stories are for people who think they don't like short stories. These stories don't leave off in mid-breath; instead, they feature characters who seem to live on even after their closing pages. The humor in The Book of Right and Wrong makes the jarring moments that much more jarring, and the tender moments that much more tender.
At once heartbreaking and hilarious, the 11 stories in The Book of Right and Wrong capture their characters at the defining moments of their lives. A mother finds herself defending her son's biggest bully from a tormentor of his own; a young man watches as his cape-wearing former high-school classmate proves himself more adept at making friends; a social worker gambles everything on expediting an adoption-and causes unforeseen consequences for every person in her life; a boy standing in for Jimmy Carter in his elementary school's mock-election inadvertently starts a bloody playground war; an ex-con single father finds himself on the inside of his town's social circle, with no clue as to how the game is played.
With lively storytelling and empathy to spare, The Book of Right and Wrong defies the notion that full, memorable characters live only in novels.
Critic Reviews:
"This is a stunning debut from a distinctive new presence in American storytelling, among the best collections I have read." (Amy Greene, author of Bloodroot)
"Outrageous, tender, hilarious, bewildered: Matt Debenham's The Book of Right and Wrong is so full of life that it's a miracle the binding can hold it all together. A spectacular debut." (Paul Lisicky, author of Lawnboy and Famous Builder)
Members Reviews:
Compact, evocative, lyrical.
Matt Debenham knows how to evoke characters and moods in a minuscule amount of space. His collection of short stories lives at ground level, in a broken-in world that never feels contrived. The quirks and twists that come and go throughout this collection are never there for show. Just like the oddities and grotesqueness that inevitably happen to you or me in the course of living and interacting with real people in the real world seem, in hindsight, to be inexorable. Is there drama? Yes, some of it bordering on the horrific. Is there pathos? Yes, gut-wrenching emotions in spades. The characters that populate Debenham's stories are most of all real. Flawed, loving, oblivious, cruel, misguided, hopeful, tragic though they may be they are never cardboard cut outs. The worst and best thing I can say about this book is it doesn't overstay it's welcome, it pulls up to your driveway and unloads its cargo, then rumbles off to parts unknown, leaving you wanting more. Like a lot of other aspects of life, sometimes, you just get what you get. The comfort here is that Mr. Debenham will continue to produce quality work like this for years to come.
"Roller Coaster" Isn't Right
As I was reading this The Book of Right and Wrong, I kept thinking of how to describe it, and kept coming to the cliche of a reader "going on a roller-coaster ride" -- as back-to-back stories can be so different from one another. Funny stories, tragic ones, stories of social ignorance.
And by threading these together, The Book of Right and Wrong assembles a weird community of stories about the truest people dealing with the unfortunate realities of life.