The Tennessee Waltz and Other Stories - Hardcover

In these slice-of-life stories, we join characters progressing through critical, often life-changing experiences. Their magnetism is powerful, for despite the brevity of our time together, we as readers get involved with them and are concerned about their outcome once the story ends. In fact, finding that two of the stories contain the same characters, we are grateful for a second chance to try to understand how they arrived at their present situation and what they will do. These characters remind us that relationships can be transient--certainly Cheuse's most common theme. Interestingly, the stories, some of which have been published earlier, contain an unsettling mixture of both hope and despair, as if Cheuse has not made his final decision regarding the nature of the human condition.
- Dorothy Golden, Georgia Southern Coll., Statesboro
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Poignant stories that reveal a middle-class, gritty Southwest.

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