Door in the Air: New and Selected Stories, 1999-2020 - Paperback

by Jude Joseph Lovell (Author)

From his years as a graduate writing student at the dawn of this century to the present day as a middle-aged father of four, Jude Joseph Lovell has been quietly blazing his own trail as a short fiction writer. Spanning twenty-one years of experimentation, DOOR IN THE AIR includes a striking assortment of ten tales from two previously published volumes as well as six new works, ranging broadly in tone and substance. In "A Chemical Episode," a young father struggles to fulfill his responsibilities as he grieves a child lost to miscarriage. "Trouble Low and In" depicts a restless young Irish outfielder in Depression-ravaged Ohio who stumbles upon a chance to face the mighty Satchel Paige in the batter's box. Readers of Lovell's fantasy novel OBSIDIAN are here treated to a tantalizing preview of a future installment in "A Woman in the Breach." Three aging brothers throw caution to the breeze in order to cut a punk-metal album in "Past the Point." And in the moving title story, a wounded, female Marine faces long odds in assimilating back into life, and love, after losing a leg in Iraq. DOOR IN THE AIR represents a colorful and thought-provoking retrospective of Jude Joseph Lovell's fiction writing to date. And it's only the beginning.