Bøker av John Sheirer

Another fine book from Meat For Tea Press. "John Sheirer's Stumbling Through Adulthood: Linked Stories showed his immense skill for traditional-length short stories. For Now: One Hundred 100-Word Stories shows equal facility with the microfiction form. These stories range from gentle humor so light it might float off the page in a soft breeze to dense, powerful tales that threaten to sink through the book's cover and bore directly into the earth's molten core. "Here, in these finely wrought tales, is a universal current of humanity that connects us all." - Robert Scotellaro, author of Ways to Read the World. "Unsettling in their precise focus, Sheirer's brief and crystalline works sharpen the reader's awareness of the irrevocable. - Gina Barreca, author of They Used to Call Me Snow White, but I Drifted. "With so many big stories in such compact spaces, John Sheirer will titillate and delight you." - Joshua Michael Stewart, author of Love Something and Break Every String

The stories in award-winning author John Sheirer's Stumbling Through Adulthood show the connections between intimate, personal experiences and the broader culture of America during recent years. These stand-alone stories feature a range of characters who reappear in multiple tales like surprise visits from long-lost friends. Some protagonists grow through different life stages, adding depth and texture as they age, change, and adapt. Sheirer's beautiful writing combines realism, struggles, failures, triumphs, relationships, family, work, humor, ethical conundrums, politics, and even a few otherworldly visitors. Through it all, empathy and hope bind these characters together as they stumble through adulthood, strive to catch each other when they fall, and step toward a better future. "John Sheirer's Stumbling Through Adulthood is a clever, witty, and intoxicating collection that will leave readers staggering with delight. As deft as he is original, Sheirer entertains with his distinctive oblique vision and a cast of characters both memorable and lovable. These are first-rate stories by a veteran master of the genre." -Jacob M. Appel, author of Einstein's Beach House. "John Sheirer is a master storyteller-and a generous one, too. His characters are decent, funny, and relevant to the way we live. You won't want to put this book down once you start reading." -Susanne Davis, author of The Appointed Hour "In precise, spare, accessible prose, John Sheirer creates intense and masterful portraits of his widely varied characters' deeply personal worlds by conveying subtle but rich internal conflict and point of view. The characters who populate Stumbling Through Adulthood stay with you, like the friend with whom you have had a particularly intimate conversation." -Sherri VandenAkker, writer, director, producer of My Name Was Bette: The Life and Death of an Alcoholic

Twice as BrightHigh school basketball coach Phil Novak has a heart attack and dies during a pick-up game--only to discover himself playing for the 1957 Boston Celtics.Making CorrectionsPrison teacher Gary Sanderson meets and befriends an innocent-seeming inmate and helps him escape. But the inmate turns out to be not at all what he seemed.Something BorrowedValerie and Ken are a happily married teacher and social worker, but they are fed up with being poor. So they devise what seems like a perfect plan--split up, court and marry rich people, take them for a fortune in the divorce, then come back together and live happily-ever-after. Award-winning teacher and writer John Sheirer wrote these screenplays while working as a movie theater projectionist between "real" jobs. Although these visions never made it to the big screen, readers of this book now have the chance to project them through their own imaginations.