Norman Waksler

Norman Waksler has published fiction in a number of journals including Ascent, Greensboro Review, Kansas Quarterly, Story Quarterly, Madison Review, Bibliophilos, Chaffin Journal, as well as in Best American Short Stories. He received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Fiction for 1998 and the Chaffin Award for Fiction in 2004. A collection of stories, The Book of Regrets, was published by Main Street Rag Press. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, the sociologist Frances Chaput Waksler.

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Signs of Life

Norman Waksler

Release Date: August 1, 2008

ISBN: 978-0981589923

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In Signs of Life, Norman Waksler deftly weaves stories of change both brutal and subtle, encounters both urban and urbane. Covering life from the first childhood pangs of love and unfairness to the moral conundrums of midlife, the stories in this collection delicately reveal the intersection of sepia-toned nostalgia and full-color truth. The reader is plunged into ordinary lives punctuated by extraordinary events, seeing how, as Waksler writes, “…even the most satisfactory life [can] be broken apart and rearranged by a single bit of wayward information.”

 

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"Signs of Life injects everyday encounters with a twist of the extraordinary, and Waksler’s simple yet impactful style of writing gives the reader a satisfying glimpse into the minds of these characters and the arc of their lives." —NewPages