Big Bend

By Bill Roorbach

Subjects: Fiction, general, General, Fiction, historical, Manners and customs, FICTION, Fiction, Social life and customs, Fiction, short stories (single author), Men, United states, social life and customs, fiction

Description: "In "Fog," a teenage boy learns hard lessons about canoes, the Gulf of Maine, sex, and love. A struggling young artist goes home for the holidays in search of succor for the stomach - and heart - with poor results in "Thanksgiving." Other stories recount the ultimately disastrous reunion of estranged friends, an unemployed architect's foolish courting with bad company, and a middle-aged rock star's struggle with the urge to settle down. In the title story, "Big Bend," a grieving widower, troubled by his own waning years, is tempted by a seductively attentive birdwatcher no older than his daughter."--BOOK JACKET.