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This collection—derived from many impulses but unified through one distinctive sensibility—contains passionate subversive acts of language, oblique takes on American life, outbursts of comic genius, long meditations on the cruelty of contemporary customs, and funny, disturbing glimpses of daily life. Reality is rendered pitilessly real, and fantasy bares its teeth. At once playful and devastatingly serious, the works in this collection employ a variety of forms—genres, anti-genres, fantasies, games—while highlighting the dangers and delights of contemporary life: Hollywood, tsunamis, war, the art world, AIDS, ambition, weapons of mass destruction, family values, perverse sexualities, urban violence, small change and big bucks, are all used to chum the waters of imagination and truth.
This second installment of The Finish Line Series finds Ireland Murphy and Michael Farino fighting for their relationship, and for their lives. Unknown forces threaten them, causing both to take matters into their own hands. Michael and Ilee need to find out who is behind this in order to stop it. The list of suspects runs deep, thanks to both of their crime families and their personal life choices. Revelations about both of them, and their families, lead to intense passion, suspicion, betrayal, revealed secrets and a desperate attempt at regaining control of their future. What that future looks like, and who will or will not be in it, is decided.
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April 15, 2013, Patriots Day. The city of Boston, and all of the nation, was rocked by a terrorist attack at the historical Boston Marathon finish line. Countless people are affected by this tragedy, including Michael Farino and Ireland “Ilee” Murphy. Neither one of them could have predicted that the act of saving Ilee’s life would lead Michael on a journey of personal discovery, while a decades old war between their rival Boston crime families threatens their happiness and their lives. Michael and Ilee will have to pledge their allegiances to either their families or each other, but it is not that simple. Passion, secrets, betrayal and a very complicated past are working against Michael and Ilee. Nothing is ever as it seems… Nothing!
Short stories and essays from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.
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