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Traveling Sitting Still
by R J Woerheide
ISBN:
978-0-595-42238-1
eBook
978-0-595-86576-3
©2007
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 "Traveling Sitting Still is a superb collection of short stories, far superior to anything I have read by a young writer. This collection reflects an unusual combination of writing and storytelling talents. By shedding new light and insights into commonplace occurrences, many of these stories elevate everyday events and experiences to the level of high literary art. Other stories in the collection do likewise with more profound human tragedies that cast an uncompromising light on the terrible things human beings knowingly and unknowingly do to one another, while simultaneously reminding us that the roles of victim and oppressor can be easily reversed."
- Dennis M Clausen, author of Prairie Son.
"People struggle with fraught predicaments—or their lurid perceptions of mundane situations—in this engaging collection."
- Kirkus Discoveries
"Woerheide's lines are honed to a precision that makes for clean, fast-paced, perceptive storytelling, no drag, no bluffing, no false filling for lacking ideas. Like life itself, Woerheide doesn't pull his punches. He doesn't compromise to save his reader's delicate feelings. One senses an alert intelligence behind every line, a careful polishing of the phrases and individual words, so that each in turn pulls its weight and adds to what surrounds it. These twelve stories will leave most readers satisfied and wondering what Robert Judge Woerheide will do next. It's a fine anticipation."
-Duff Brenna, AWP Best Novelist Winner and author of Too Cool.
"Traveling Sitting Still is a wonderful collection of short stories. The characters are interesting, amusing, and tragic—meaning they are all real. Woerheide does not shy from telling the truth through the lives of these characters, even if the truth is not attractive. ... He takes daring chances in this book, and in my opinion they result in some of its most gripping and transcendent moments."
- David Bernardi, Editor.
"Traveling Sitting Still is rich with insight into the human condition. Whether it's a wounded American GI forced to dig his own grave during World War II, a lonely mysophobic stuck on an entrance ramp in Los Angeles, or a man headed for divorce finding solace in a Chiquita banana sticker, the compelling voices in Traveling Sitting Still heal many of the wounds their stories examine.
In an age of increasing anonymity, when so many find themselves alone, Traveling Sitting Still reminds us that we are part of a greater whole.
It is this single thread of humanity which informs and empowers Traveling Sitting Still. These hard-edged, uncompromising stories remind us that we are not alone: that it is often, simply, perspective which cages us. Traveling Sitting Still is fearless in the way it provides keys to escaping these cages."
- iUniverse
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