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In Said and Done, a father dealing equivocally with his son's ambiguous sexuality conducts a drunken tour of a famous artist's birthplace. Two lonely women turn the tables on an antic stalker. In these stories, James Morrison's characters frequently come to grips with their own lives through connections with others.
"You read James Morrison knowing you're in the hands of an extraordinary writer, with a sure sense of musicality, pacing, and description. But the real achievement of Said and Done is not so visible. These characters will possess your imagination long after you've put the book down. How does he do that?"
—Paul Lisicky, author of Lawn Boy and Famous Builder
"Both literary and chatty, full of style and voice, at once leisurely and tense—there are always at least two things going on in the tales of Said and Done. The characters are reticent and they are expansive, caught between the devil of the self and the deep blue sea that is the rest of the world—and the story, between these two hard hinged halves, is the precious thing we’re reading toward. Lucky you, to be diving for such pearls."
—Brian Bouldrey, author of The Boom Economy and Honorable Bandit: A Walk Across Corsica
An artful, often suspenseful collection of stories by a gifted writer who looks out clearly, and darkly, upon the world.
—David Ebershoff, author of The 19th Wife and The Danish Girl
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James Morrison is the author of a memoir, Broken Fever, and a novel, The Lost Girl. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, and have been cited in both the BASS and Best American Essays anthologies. He currently lives in Southern California and teaches at Claremont McKenna College. |
