Bibliograph

Close is fine, stories, Eliot Treichel

Type

Label

Close is fine, stories, Eliot Treichel

Language

eng

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Close is fine

Oclc number

783148962

Responsibility statement

Eliot Treichel

Sub title

stories

Summary

"Treichel debuts with a collection of short stories focused on the muted struggles of Midwestern blue collar characters to make sense of their messy, often reduced circumstances. The title story follows Tanner, a carpenter by trade, whose affair on the job with a younger woman has precipitated divorce from his wife Kirsten, a waitress. The downbeat Tanner seeks solace in erecting, with his pal Gerald, a replica howitzer. A more offbeat yarn like Stargazer, set in 1957, concerns Walters, a shiftless bar owner, who buys his long-suffering wife, Tooty, an Electrolux vacuum cleaner for her birthday and she loved it. Later, he trains an adopted black bear to wrestle with him in a professional stage act. Brian, a married elementary teacher in On By, is drawn to a dogsledder named Rita. I don't think I'll ever forget this, he says after riding on her sled, but before jumping into bed with her. The final story, The Golden Torch, is about a widowed father and his divorced son who practice their firefighting skills while coping with their feelings of loneliness."--Publishers Weekly

Table Of Contents

Good potato soil -- We're not that -- Papermaker pride -- The lumberjack's story -- On by -- Stargazer -- Close is fine -- The golden torch -- A chat with Eliot

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