(MENAFN- Market Press Release) ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to offer the latest work by Donald Secreast The Solar-Powered Southern Belle hitting stores everywhere on June 3rd, 2020.
The Solar-Powered Southern Belle consists of eight stories, which deal with the aspirations of eight characters who find themselves not fully equipped, by traditional measurements, to achieve a completely balanced life. Consequently, they must struggle with which parts of their lives they must sacrifice in order to find the satisfying equilibrium they seek. These stories represent author's continuing exploration of how people who have not been born with any economic or social advantages pursue whatever paths they can find to spiritual or psychological fulfillment.
"If you are a lover of short stories or great storytelling, you must read The Solar-Powered Southern Belle. These are finely polished gems of stories in the tradition of the best short story writers, such as Lorrie Moore, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty. Secreast's mastery of narrative, combined with his perspective from coming of age in a small Southern town, gives us insight into the lives of characters that step off the page and meet us at the back fence. I've known so many people like these characters that I suspect Secreast has modeled them on people who have passed through his own life. His keen observation of human motivation drives each story to its logical and perfect conclusion. My favorite of the collection is 'Bear Season,' in which a clerk in a tourist trap simultaneously wrestles with a literal bear and a figurative one – guilt for his role in a friend's accident. In all eight of the stories, Secreast flawlessly captures the troubles and voices of people who are often overlooked but whose stories reflect greater truths that resonate with us all. As a writer, I only hope that someday I might produce stories as fine, compelling and enduring as these." -- Gail B. Kent
Donald Secreast is the author of two collections of short stories, The Rat Becomes Light and White Trash, Red Velvet, published by HarperCollins in 1990 and 1993. He earned a Ph.D. at the University of Iowa and he taught fiction writing and American Literature at Radford University.
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