The Angel of the Garden Stories
- List Price: $19.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of Missouri Pr
- Publish date: 03/01/1999
Description:
Loners of one sort or another populate Ely's fiction, from a young man discharged from the marines and working as a solitary gamekeeper to a Vietnam veteran turned professor who exchanges favorable grades for sexual favors from his students. Whatever their situations, these characters all feel a deep sense of loss and alienation from the world around them.
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The Vietnam War is a major contributor to these feelings. Although the war is directly portrayed only once in the collection, it figures obliquely in most of the stories. Ely explores the war from a variety of perspectives -- a sniper whose concentration has been distracted by his thoughts of women, a veteran who lives with his mother in the Mississippi Delta and continually struggles with madness, and a talk radio announcer who is visited by a war acquaintance from North Vietnam. Regardless of the situation, each character struggles to overcome the effects of the war, using sex, literature, and even tennis to reach a "calm place."
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