Robert Dawson's first book, Six Mile Corner, published just a year after his graduation from Harvard, was a collection of poems that celebrated the sorrows and wonders of the rural America in his youth. Fifty years later, Robert's new stories confront the realities of urban modernity: racism, societal alienation, environmental decay, crime, and the failure of hallowed values. Though his subjects are often harsh, his sense of wonder persists. In one story, Starry Messenger, a father discovers his son's resourcefulness during a risky mountain adventure. In 'Bug Slayer,' a bright African-American college student finds himself sharing a dorm room with a flaming radical and a rocky conservative, both white. Three stories revive the epistolary genre, in the form of e-mail exchanges. Assassination, child abuse, and hurtful sexuality jostle in these stories with themes of deep friendship, love of nature, and philosophical courage. They're all held together by the author's sardonic wit and luscious language. Dawson reveals his admiration for the works of Alice Munro in 'I Am! Or So I Think' when his narrator quotes her as saying her characters "took on their own life and color and did things they had not done in reality."

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