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In Costly Habits, Peter Makuck skillfully portrays characters who have experienced various kinds of loss: loss of work, innocence, and self-respect; loss as a result of death, separation, or divorce. The relationships of siblings, husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and lovers, provide framework for these narratives. Makuck's stories, often humorous, deal with the costly habits of being materialistic, envious, narcissistic, fearful, judgmental, vengeful, obsessive-and altogether human. His depth and vivid detail make this a compelling collection of short fiction.
About the Author
Peter Makuck is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences at East Carolina University, where he has edited Tar River Poetry since 1978. He is the author of an earlier collection of short stories, Breaking and Entering, and five volumes of poetry. His essays and reviews, stories and poems have appeared in the Hudson Review, the Sewanee Review, Poetry, and the Laurel Review. He lives with his wife, Phyllis, on Bogue Banks, one of North Carolina's barrier islands.
Costly Habits: Stories,Peter Makuck,University of Missouri Press,0826214460,20th century,American - General,Fiction,Fiction - General,General,Literary,Literature: Classics,Popular American Fiction,Short Stories (single author),Social life and customs,United States,Modern fiction,Short stories,USA
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