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Last Call: Stories (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction),Used
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In this tenth anniversary edition of K. L. Cooks debut collection, the linked stories of Last Call span three generations in the life of one West Texas family. Events both tender and tragic lead to a strange and lovely vision of a world stitched together in tenuous ways as the characters struggle to make sense of their lives amid the shifting boundaries of marriage, family, class, and culture.A series of unusual incidentsa daughters elopement, a sobering holiday trip, a vicious attack by the family dog, a lightning strikeprovokes a mother of five to abandon her children. An oil rigger, inspired by suninduced hallucinations, rescues his estranged wife, who doesnt appreciate his chivalry. In the wake of his fathers and brothers deaths, a teenage boy finds precarious solace working with his mother at a countrywestern bar. A woman fleeing her fourth marriage arrives at a complicated understanding of love and responsibility.Cooks storiessuggesting unlikely connections between comedy and pathos, cruelty and generositypromise a hardwon dignity and hope.
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