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A
.38 Special and a Broken Heart
Stories
by Jonis Agee
"Short-short story writing at its best. It deserves
to be read, read again, and passed to every story-loving
friend on down the road."— Albuquerque Journal
"Spirit resounds in the splendid economy of Agee's deft characterizations and
sharp, visceral imagery. . . . Explores the tangled intersections of love and
death."— Publishers Weekly
Full of what Booklist has described as "breathtaking lyricism, sensuality,
and catharsis," A .38 Special and a Broken Heart reveals the degree
of Jonis Agee's prodigious talents. The thirty stories in A .38 Special and
a Broken Heart manage to pack emotional detail and compelling narrative
into sagas of people who love, lose, and try again. Honest and biting, gentle
and witty, these stories flesh out the bare dramas of most human lives. Persistence
and strength, betrayal and forgiveness, weakness and acceptance, life and death—all
find themselves played out in this collection.
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