Identity Club Cl

by Burgin,Richard

• ISBN13: 9780865381155
• ISBN10: 0865381151
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-17
• Publisher: ONTARIO R

Summary

In 20 stories (both new and selected from his four previous collections), Richard Burgin explores our quest for identity and love, truth and family, as well as darker themes of betrayal and crime. In The Identity Club we meet an extraordinarily variegated cast of characters, including prostitutes and businessmen, a famous young writer and a homeless basketball player, an ambitious but thwarted composer. There are love stories, murder stories, as well as stories of transcendence, both imagined and real. The 20 songs on the accompanying CD, while not directly related to the stories, express many of the same moods and emotions found in The Identity Club, from the darkly lyrical to the exultant.

Author Biography

Richard Burgin is a professor of Communication at St. Louis University, where he edits the award-winning literary journal Boulevard.

Table of Contents

Vacation	p. 3
My black Rachmaninoff	p. 21
The identity club	p. 41
The spirit of New York	p. 60
The horror conference	p. 75
Notes on Mrs. Slaughter	p. 89
Bodysurfing	p. 105
Song of the earth	p. 117
With all my heart	p. 132
Mercury	p. 144
Simone	p. 165
Aerialist	p. 188
Ghost parks	p. 201
Carbo's	p. 214
Miles	p. 229
The park	p. 247
The urn	p. 260
The victims	p. 277
The liar	p. 296
My sister's house	p. 310
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