All actual contacts with such barbaric peoples were left entirely to the little clique of Laboring Brothers. This select group was the crème de la crème – missionaries, Meeting-style. When any of these fellows came to town out of Africa ...
A charming and richly intelligent story about the disasters, major and minor, that are bound to happen to us all, Natural Shocks showcases the fine craftsmanship and depth of feeling that have established Richard Stern as one of America’s ...
Natural Shocks
BOOKS BY RICHARD STERN Golk Europe, or Up and Down with Schreiber and Baggish In Any Case (reissued as The Chaleur Network) Teeth, Dying, and Other Matters Stitch Honey and Wax 1968: A Short Novel, an Urban Idyll, Five Stories, ...
Based on Hamlet’s famous “To be or not to be” soliloquy, NATURAL SHOCKS is a damning condemnation of violence, abuse, and firearms in America.
A high-flying journalist comes to ground in this brilliant and bittersweet novel about coming to terms with the traumas of life.