Some Things Are Better Left to Saxophones by June Akers Seese (English) Hardcove

Description: Some Things Are Better Left to Saxophones by June Akers Seese "The fact is, June Akers Seese refuses to lie. When her eye lights on something, she arrests it with a photographic infallibility that is simply breathtaking. She writes Hemingways best declarative sentence through the lens of Kafka and the searing elegance of Joan Didion. Yet, on top of everything, she manages to be very, very funny-often excruciatingly so. Some Things Are Better Left to Saxophones, her latest novel, embodies vintage Seese and her all-too-human, all-too-like-us, unforgiving domestic landscape: inside our houses, insides our heads, inside our hearts." -Joseph Bathanti, Professor of Creative Writing and Co-Director of the Visiting Writers Series at Appalachian State University In this novel, June Akers Seese writes of two retired Detroit teachers and their retarded daughter, Melody, who lives with them and works at a downtown hotel folding napkins and polishing tabletops. Melodys sisters and brother have moved on. One sister to Japan to study languages and literature; another to a boarding house on the Wayne State University campus where she collects Masters degrees that go nowhere and earns her living as a sometimes waitress. Their brother has fled to Alaska where land is cheap and his carpentry skills valued. All approaching 40, these offspring have no plans to marry or return home. They are all trapped in a dream of escaping the responsibility of Melody when their parents die. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Seese is the recipient of a Yaddo Writers Fellowship. She has taught at Spelman College and Callanwolde Fine Arts Center. Details ISBN0595690807 Author June Akers Seese Short Title SOME THINGS ARE BETTER LEFT TO Pages 124 Publisher iUniverse Language English ISBN-10 0595690807 ISBN-13 9780595690800 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY FIC Year 2007 Residence Atlanta, GA, US Birth 1935 DOI 10.1604/9780595690800 UK Release Date 2007-07-25 Imprint iUniverse Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2007-07-25 NZ Release Date 2007-07-25 US Release Date 2007-07-25 Publication Date 2007-07-25 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134740895;

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