{"product_id":"velvet-shipwrecks-collected-stories-paperback","title":"Velvet Shipwrecks: Collected Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTim Wenzell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTim Wenzell's \u003ci\u003eVelvet Shipwrecks\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of short stories characterized by the unexpected detour, the stops along a narrative way that take the reader into a marginal America, where surprises happen and are cast in a dark humor that paradoxically lights our way. Consider \"Check Point,\" where the entire Wolrath family is arrested for drunkenness--including a sixteen-year-old son \"was fed sips of wine in the middle of the fair grounds for five hours by his mother\" and \"Annie, barely ten,\" who kicked the officer's shins as the father, sober, attempted to pass his sobriety test. Consider, too, the dark \"Downstream,\" and the funeral of the narrator's brother--shot in the head by a man wearing steel-toed boots. Or consider \"Y,\" the story of a misread ultrasound and a father who \"jumped the gun, went out to the Wal-Mart and decorated his soon-to-be-baby-boy's nursery with baseballs and footballs.\" Of course, \"The fetus...emerged a girl,\" and \"Ted's dream of coaching a son was dashed.\" Indeed, Wenzell's stories are moody and uneasy, but they are simultaneously delightful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTIM WENZELL is an Associate Professor of English at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia. He is published widely, including the novel \u003ci\u003eAbsent Children, \u003c\/i\u003eas well as two books on Irish ecocriticism, \u003ci\u003eEmerald Green: An Ecocritical Study of Irish Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWoven Shades of Green: An Anthology of Irish Nature Literature\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 170\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 26, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46926456160395,"sku":"9781622889150","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/4gFufTjwF-9781622889150.webp?v=1778766622","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/velvet-shipwrecks-collected-stories-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}