Street Games Stories

by Brown, Rosellen; Busch, Frederick

• ISBN13: 9780393322071
• ISBN10: 0393322076
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

"All the stories in this remarkable cycle of stories are assigned an address. Each is also a separate life, yet part of the larger life that a neighborhood is; [this book] is an artist's inhabiting of other lives out of love, compassion, anger, and pain. Like the neighborhood, the stories are various. The mother of a damaged child tells us, 'I know how he dreams me. I know because I dream his dreams.' A male bureaucrat laments, 'I am too bored to move. No man can leave his wife for reasons like these....' In these stories, Rosellen Brown is Anglo, Puerto Rican, African American, Caucasian, male, female, parent, child. That is the artist's responsibility, the being of so many. Furthermore, it is a brilliantly written book that, in a period of fiction sniffing and snorting at itself, reminds us how the first rate will not go away."'”from the foreword by Frederick Busch

Author Biography

Rosellen Brown is the author of the best-selling novel Before and After, as well as Half a Heart, Civil Wars, and others. She lives in Chicago

Table of Contents

I Am Not Luis Beech-Nut	1	(10)
The Only Way to Make It in New York	11	(12)
Cecil and Amelia	23	(14)
How to Win	37	(16)
A Letter to Ismael in the Grave	53	(8)
Paco, Dreaming	61	(8)
Mustard Seed	69	(12)
Kitchen Money	81	(4)
Why I Quit the Gowanus Liberation Front	85	(16)
Sally and Me	101	(24)
Inter-Office	125	(8)
Questionnaire to Determine Eligibility for Heaven	133	(22)
Gold	155	(6)
Turf	161