Ghosts of Yesterday
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Ghosts of Yesterday is a stunning collection by multiple-award-winning author Jack Cady The Off Season, The Haunting of Hood Canal. Cady captures the sights and emotions of America, from the Pacific Northwest ("Jeremiah"), to the streets of San Francisco ("The Lady With the Blind Dog"), to the Midwest-heartland ("Halloween 1942"), along the roads and highways in between ("The Ghost of Dive Bomber Hill"), and back into the history of the American Southeast ("The Time That Time Forgot"). The stories that make up Ghosts of Yesterday are detailed and realistic portraits of the world that, despite (and perhaps because) of their authenticity, manage to convey a sense of wonder and fantastic, where anything is possible. The characters and places that Cady brings to life demonstrate clearly why he is one of the most versatile and respected writers today... His stories will move you, and change the way you look at the world.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
For more than 30 years, Cady has been one of America's great chroniclers of characters and places. In novels like The Haunting of Hood Canal and stories like "The Night They Killed Road Dog," he has relied heavily on a deep knowledge of people and of technique. Often called a writer's writer, Cady seems concerned less about categories than about the quality of his work. His new collection continues to display that excellent craftsmanship in long stories such as "The Time That Land Forgot" and "Jeremiah." Few writers can capture the rhythms of blue-collar speech as well as Cady does in "The Ghost of Dive Bomber Hill," with its pithy yet descriptive dialogue. That same sense of rhythm manifests itself in the narrative: "Then, one night, the ghost showed up and there were no more wrecks. Drunks still ran off the road and tumbled down the mountain. Trucks still sometimes ended up in ditches, but that rock face never again took another truck. Could it be, it just could be, that the ghost knew he was going to have to pay off a debt?" A wonderfully luminous quality pervades Cady's fiction, sometimes because of his style, sometimes because he has allowed the reader to experience some darkly shining truth. Although marred by the inclusion of two inconsequential nonfiction pieces and one or two minor stories, this collection provides a good sample of a writer in top form. FYI: The publisher also offers a limited edition, signed and slipcased, for $60.
