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DeMarinis, Rick was born in 1934.
( "DeMarinis is a wizard shaking to its literary roots th...)
"DeMarinis is a wizard shaking to its literary roots the short-story genre."—Matthew Gilbert, Boston Globe Rick DeMarinis possesses a power and an originality unique in contemporary American fiction. The Coming Triumph of the Free World, his second story collection, puts his flamboyant gifts on display: an amazing verbal energy, a blackly comic vision of the world as an immense booby trap, and a technical virtuosity that modulates from down-and-dirty realism to fractured fable to surreal and searing visions of madness.
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(This anthology includes the title story about a dissolvin...)
This anthology includes the title story about a dissolving marriage and an obsessive love affair that symbolizes the uneasiness and fear resulting from missile installations in North Dakota farmland.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0880011491/?tag=2022091-20
DeMarinis, Rick was born in 1934.
Instructor English University Montana, Missoula, 1967-1969. Assistant professor English San Diego State University, 1969-1976. Distinguished writer-in-residence Wichita State University, Kansas, 1986.
Associate professor English University Texas, El Paso, since 1988. Visiting writer Arizona State University, Tempe, 1980-1981.
(This anthology includes the title story about a dissolvin...)
( "DeMarinis is a wizard shaking to its literary roots th...)