Claire, Wading Into the Danube by Night

Author of the award-winning Prague Summer returns with a new story collection that explores American lives both at home and abroad in the age of anxiety--a world gone sour with regret, where only the small intimacies that sometimes blossom between people offer any kind of hope or possibility for redemption. In the title story, a seemingly idyllic European vacation ends abruptly when a woman goes missing, leaving her lover to come to terms with the disappointingly minor role he's played in her life. In "Salt of the Earth," the story of a Manhattan restaurant is told through the lives of its employees, reminding us that turmoil can be assuaged one savory bite at a time, and that some spaces, through the time we spend there, can become sacred. Jeffrey Condran's Claire, Wading Into the Danube By Night is an intense and sophisticated collection of stories in which characters travel the world in search of truths that aren't always comfortable, and companionsh

Author: Jeffrey Condran
Publisher: Southeast Missouri State Univ Press
Published: 03/02/2020
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781732039940
ISBN10: 1732039941
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
Jeffrey Condran is the author of the story collection, A Fingerprint Repeated (Press 53). His debut novel, Prague Summer (Counterpoint), received a 2015 Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal.