Rindfleisch, Norval
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Product Description A CLIFF OF FALL Selected Short Stories and Novellas 1970-2000. Each of the stories in this retrospective collection evokes a diffe
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rent world, but all are linked by their humor, common themes, and a fullness of character development. All are informed by an unerring sense of milieu, by a subtle and pervasive moral attitude, and by an unusual richness and precision of style. About the Author NORVAL RINDFLEISCH, whose short stories have won an O. Henry Award and have been recognized in the "Roll of Honor" and "List of Distinction" in BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, was born in Los Angeles and raised near St. Paul, the setting of many of his stories published in literary journals such as EPOCH at Cornell University and THE LITERARY REVIEW. The title story of his first collection of fiction IN LOVELESS CLARITY was included in THE MINNESOTA EXPERIENCE, an anthology of selected prose with Minnesota characters and settings. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Chicago. Since then he has spent over thirty years teaching in independent schools, primarily in New England. He has also been active in programs of the National Writing Project in California and New Hampshire. From 1981 to 1990 the author was the Lewis Perry Professor in the Humanities at Phillips Exeter Academy.
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