Archive for May 17, 2009
THE HEYDAY OF THE INSENSITIVE BASTARDS by Robert Boswell
In this collection of stories about life’s uncertainties, Robert Boswell picks up his characters like mechanical toys and winds them up tight, and just when they are at maximum tension, he twists the key one more turn, guaranteeing that they will unwind noisily, out of control. Virtually all his characters are losers. A woman, having lost her disabled husband, now finds that she has also lost her best friend. A housecleaner has been abandoned by her husband. An attention-seeking motel manager demands that a patron strip search her. A needy young man goes broke while in the thrall of a fortune teller. A priest tries to help a pathetic family by offering a “story to have faith in, even if he cannot entirely believe it.”
May 17, 2009
Tags: Graywolf, Stories Posted in: Award Winning Author, Contemporary, Short Stories, US Southwest 
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