{"product_id":"necessary-deaths-9781597090124","title":"NECESSARY DEATHS","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdroitly told, Geoffrey Clark's collection of stories \u003ci\u003eNecessary Deaths\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to anyone who has faced difficult choices regarding the care of animals. Mr. Clark's characters struggle to learn how to let go and confront loss. His stories examine the themes of violation of innocence, and the acceptance of required acts of violence. His characters live with animals and care for them. Through the transcendent experience of that care, they must face assumptions they've been living with regarding what is natural and right with and around them. As either victims or perpetrators of violence, the characters in these stories are forced to ask themselves if violence is inherent in their condition. Mr. Clark avoids glib, over-worked metaphors, and as a writer with five decades of stories behind him, he renders internal and external landscapes of his stories through a knack for the bon mot that enlightens, startles and illuminates. Peppered with trenchant details, cadenced in a laconic, sometimes very funny Mid-western narrative voice, each story resonates long after it's been read. The stories are polished without being pompous, and charged with a vivid, consistent accuracy. The best, culled from earlier collections, poignantly evoke a time gone by in northern Michigan during the post World War II years, and Mr. Clark addresses without nostalgia the hardscrabble innocence and complexities of rural life in that region and era. There is authenticity, skill and subtlety in the telling. Mr. Clark does not disappoint; he deserves a wide readership.\"\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e—John Flynn is author of \u003ci\u003eSomething Grand\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of stories, and several volumes of poetry and translations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeoffrey Clark’s “Necessary Deaths” brings us back to those simple and gristly realities, the secrets of the physical world, the place of our relationship to our animals, of their mysteries, of their meaning to us and their effect upon us. His writing makes real those connections, and their value. — Ted Delaney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Death after death is made new and significant in each story through precise and careful storytelling, the voices of the narrators so authentic they make us pay attention.”  I hope this works for everyone — I enjoyed the stories. My best to Geoffrey Clark.\" — Gary Fincke\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Hen Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49532948316503,"sku":"9781597090124","price":11.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781597090124.jpg?v=1731889238","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/necessary-deaths-9781597090124","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}