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This is a book of transformations. From the cigar-smoke-and-mirrors world of casino life, to the collection's title character morphing into a goat-man before the narrator's eyes, to a family drama upended by a miniature dinosaur in the backyard, Anthony Wallace writes about life-changing events.
Info autore
Anthony Wallace is a senior lecturer in the Arts and Sciences Writing Program at Boston University, where he is codirector of
Arts Now, a curriculum-based initiative to support the arts at BU. He has published poetry and short fiction in a number of literary journals, including
CutBank, the
Atlanta Review, Another Chicago Magazine, the
Florida Review, River Styx, and the
Republic of Letters. His title story, "The Old Priest," won a Pushcart Prize and was included in
Pushcart Prize XXXVII (2013 edition). He and his wife Allene reside in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Through wry, ironic prose-and what feels like firsthand experience-Wallace describes a comic and often misguided search for self-knowledge in the most unlikely locations-like the Emerald City, a low-rent gambling den where a cocktail waitress dressed as an X-rated Dorothy offers gamblers more than a Scotch on the rocks;
