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This Time Might Be Different: Stories from Maine
This Time Might Be Different: Stories from Maine in Bloomington, MN
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This Time Might Be Different
by award-winning writer Elaine Ford is a collection of stories in which deftly drawn characters contemplate difficult choices: a young girl might have coffee with a stranger; a guy might decide to rob the local laundromat; or a widow might get in the car and just keep driving.
Underneath the commonplacerunning into an old lover, a longstanding feud, an unspoken divorcereaders will find a trace of dark humor, a sinister underpinning, or a profound irony.
Of Ford's rural-Maine-set novel
Monkey Bay
,
The New York Times
said: "In its unsparing but sympathetic treatment of its characters and locale, Elaine Ford's book is reminiscent of Andrew Wyeth's stark paintings, which use the terrain of northern New England to explore a much larger emotional landscape."
by award-winning writer Elaine Ford is a collection of stories in which deftly drawn characters contemplate difficult choices: a young girl might have coffee with a stranger; a guy might decide to rob the local laundromat; or a widow might get in the car and just keep driving.
Underneath the commonplacerunning into an old lover, a longstanding feud, an unspoken divorcereaders will find a trace of dark humor, a sinister underpinning, or a profound irony.
Of Ford's rural-Maine-set novel
Monkey Bay
,
The New York Times
said: "In its unsparing but sympathetic treatment of its characters and locale, Elaine Ford's book is reminiscent of Andrew Wyeth's stark paintings, which use the terrain of northern New England to explore a much larger emotional landscape."
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