Streetcars and Other Vehicles: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780995286115)

Vendor: Ronald Sparling
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Format: Paperback
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Streetcars and Other Vehicles: Stories

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Streetcars and Other Vehicles: Stories

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Format: Paperback
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An elderly woman yearns for the love of a man she's only watched from across their courtyard. A boy struggles for the approval of a father whose values he can never share. An expat in Beijing deals with the repercussions of his lifestyle of excess. And an old man struggles to separate who he once was from who he has become. From the opening lines of the first story in which a young bride looks to Ann Landers for advice regarding her husband's bizarre sexual requests, readers enter a world of the marginalised and the hapless. In this collection of stories, six of which have appeared in North American literary journals, Sparling's storytelling is at once sympathetic and merciless. Stripping the veneer from the privileged and the deprived, the young and the old, his stories reveal the desperation with which they pursue dreams both worthwhile and vain.

Author: Ronald Sparling
ISBN-10: 0995286116
ISBN-13: 9780995286115
Publisher: Third Wheel Publishing
Language: English
Published: 11/11/2016
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.46d
By Ronald Sparling
By Ronald Sparling
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Ronald Sparling grew up in Montreal, Canada, but has lived abroad since 1994, when he first moved to Beijing. Since then, he has lived in eight different countries. Most of his time has been spent as a freelance writer and photographer with his work appearing in publications throughout S.E. Asia and North America. He has also had restaurants in Vietnam and Thailand. Currently, Sparling lives with his wife in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he continues to write and shoot while teaching Photography and Communications Technology at Sunway University College.

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