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portada 11 Stories
Type
Physical Book
Language
English
Pages
234
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780988946507

11 Stories

Chris Cander (Author) · Rubber Tree Press · Paperback

11 Stories - Chris Cander

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NT$ 662
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Synopsis "11 Stories"

When Roscoe Jones, a one-time trumpet prodigy, loses his finger, he loses more than his ability to play. Instead of becoming a musician, he becomes the superintendent of the Chicago apartment building where he has lived since birth. Very soon, his life is no longer his own; he fades into the background, plumbing and fixing and toiling for the tenants populating the eleven stories above him. Although they hardly notice him as anything but a working part of the building, he develops a sometimes uncomfortable intimacy with the details of their complicated lives. Every night, in the privacy of his basement quarters, alone with his secret longings, he plays his trumpet. That is until the evening he climbs to the roof to play in public for the first time in fifty years - and the course of his life is irrevocably changed. For some, losses may turn, unexpectedly, to gain. For Roscoe, the relationships he forms with the tenants - two, in particular - justify the amputation of his finger and the forfeiture of his dreams. This is a story about sacrifice and service, longing and love - and the abiding hopefulness of the human heart that connects us all. AWARDS Best Indie General Fiction 2013 (Kirkus Reviews) Gold Medal, Popular Fiction, 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Book of the Month, January 2014 (AiA) Silver Medal, Popular Fiction, 2014 eLit Awards

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