Four stories
Set Pieces: Four Stories
A football run, a gifted boy, a travelling guitar and a watched motel window.
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Four stories catch people at the moment performance becomes consequence: a football player living with the cost of one run, a gifted boy whose composition unsettles a school, a guitar moving among travellers with private hungers, and a motel window that turns looking into complicity.
Written in conversation with the postwar American voices that shaped the collection, Set Pieces changes style from story to story while keeping its eye on what remains after the applause, the game or the private act is over.
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