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Baby Why Not?
Author(s): Samuel Atlee (Author)
- Publisher: The Lancaster Literary Guild
- Publication Date: May 12, 2008
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 166 pages
- ISBN-10: 1605305359
- ISBN-13: 9781605305356
Book Description
The characters in this diverse collection range from lovestruck lawyers to guilty husbands to ladies on the run from the law. What unites them is their desire for acceptance — whether they’re facing family antagonisms or friends’ disasters, even their own despair. Set in China and Hong Kong, on the Kansas prairie and in Pennsylvania’s dispiriting coal towns, these stories report with compassion the journey of discovery that each character completes.
Editorial Reviews
Review
These are clever stories about sensitive people trying to stay upright in a difficult world. They reflect a keen understanding of our fundamental human weakness — how social restraint is always battling against the carnal beast within. This collection shouts out against our common foes — mediocrity and our failure to seize the day. These tales remind us that life delivers special chances! –Stephen Paul Moss
The characters in this collection are adept at adapting to the unusual circumstances in which they sometimes find themselves. For most of us, obsession is a synonym for the road not taken — lives of passion are always original and therefore rather shocking. Is it not the job of literature to illuminate our private lives, to help break the frozen sea within? –Gerard P. Sukowski
About the Author
Samuel Atlee attended Duke University and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Tunisia and worked throughout Asia for The Wall Street Journal. In 2002 he published Men at Risk, a collection of stories. His short fiction has been widely published in literary magazines, and he’s received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Baby Why Not? is his second collection of short stories.
