Close Is Fine

Name: Close Is Fine
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ISBN: 9781932010459

ISBN-10: 1932010459

ISBN-13: 9781932010459

Edition: 2012

Authors: Eliot Treichel

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Like a Polaroid snapshot, this finely wrought collection of short stories gives us a brief glimpse into the quirky and complex lives of rural town inhabitants. As the characters struggle to define their individuality and reconcile their ideals with ordinary life, we are witness to their unique self-discoveries. At times mournful and haunting, this story collection celebrates the nobility of simple life, of striving and failing without ever losing hope.

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Portland State University, Department of English
Publication date: 11/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 172
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



The shoe kid had gone to the back room to retrieve my father's size in the one Velcro shoe Joseph's had


As he waited, my father wandered along the rest of the men's casuals, standing close, leaning in like he was looking into a car's glare-filled window at a car lot


Never once did he pick up another shoe, never once looked at their soles


When he stopped next to a full-length mirror, one that my own reflection filled from half a store away, our faces were framed side by side


I watched my father's eyes scanning each stitch, looking for something, and I could tell then that I didn't, like my father had many times said, have any blessed clue


"No half-sizes," the sales kid said, rejoining us


"I brought an eight and a nine." - from "The Golden Torch"