{"product_id":"son-of-eve-other-tales-paperback","title":"Son of Eve \u0026 Other Tales - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMelvin Litton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"From novelette to flash fiction, snippets of three novels to a final essay, from voices old and young, mixing the ethereal and actual in tales of misadventure, guilt, murder, bigotry, the thrill and angst of a one-night stand, poignant as the breath of evil or memory in ache to breathe, where common lives bleed over into wonder, horror, and the unexplained. For those who would enter and explore the recurring mysteries Eve has wrought...\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For many years, I have known Melvin Litton as a musician who plays guitar and sings to the night. But, man oh man, he writes like a beast! \u003cem\u003eSon of Eve \u0026amp; Other Tales\u003c\/em\u003e is not a young man's book. It takes a lifetime to write prose so strong and unblinking to the passage of time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e --Richard Rodriguez (Pulitzer finalist for \u003cem\u003eDays of Obligation\u003c\/em\u003e \u0026amp; National Book Award nominee for \u003cem\u003eBrown, The Last Discover\u003c\/em\u003ey \u003cem\u003eof America\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There is cinematic sudden violence, Kansas-centric tales of careworn nuclear families fierce with promise and love, forbidden darknesses of wind, longing and the chill of regret that seeps through generations. These stories come from the resurrected flatlands of Charlie Starkweather's ghost. They remind me of the \u003cem\u003eDirty Realism \u003c\/em\u003eof Raymond Carver and Carson McCullers, and not to wring the obvious out of a reference, Sam Shepard...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e --John Macker, author of \u003cem\u003eAtlas of Wolves\u003c\/em\u003e (2019) and \u003cem\u003eThe Blues Drink Your Dreams Away Selected Poems, \u003c\/em\u003e 1983-2018 (Finalist for an Arizona\/New Mexico Book Award)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There's a beauty to his language, and also a darkness that at times gives pause; a folksiness that belies the stirring volatility and complexity just beneath the surface. Some phrases stop you with their beauty and insight: \u003cem\u003eghostly, erratic, yet real as a heartbeat in pause \u003c\/em\u003edescribes a neon sign above a subterranean bar in the title story. In some ways, Litton's work calls to mind authors as unlike as Allen Ginsberg and Jim Harrison: idiosyncratic, earthy and unearthly, gorgeous and forbidding...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e --Patricia Traxler, \u003cem\u003eInto the Skin\u003c\/em\u003e (Spartan Press, 2020)\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 228\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 29, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53377039925555,"sku":"9781950380640","price":24.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/9V8Yw6KtM39781950380640.webp?v=1779314813","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/son-of-eve-other-tales-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}