The Fear of Everything: Stories

The Fear of Everything: Stories
ISBN-10
1946160636
ISBN-13
9781946160638
Language
English
Published
2020
Publisher
University of Louisiana
Author
John McNally

Description

A magician shows up unexpectedly at a grade school. Retirees answer phone calls from lonely children. A sleep study assistant speaks to a patient about his own afterlife experiences. Twenty years ago, Richard Russo wrote of Troublemakers, "John McNally is an electrifying writer whose stories burrow under the skin. His world becomes our world, his way of seeing, ours. Resistance is futile." The same is true of these nine stories that are by turns fantastical, hilarious, and heartbreaking.