ISBN 0-913720-76-3
Hardcover
323 pages
5 3/4 x 8 1/4"
$24.95
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The Sudden Trees and Other Stories
by H. E. Francis
This is a new collection of ten short stories from
a writer whose proven style of unusual power holds the reader's attention with
the authority of an experienced master storyteller.
His characters live in one of three parts of the world—Spain,
Argentina, and the United States, specifically Alabama and Long Island—all
places where Francis has lived. With a few precise words Francis brands images
of his characters into the reader's mind—the thin lady at the carnival in "The
Other Side of the Fire," the institutionalized Hannah in "Had," the dying, young
professor in "The Impossible."
These stories are about people trapped—in dying bodies, in asylums,
in prisons of lost but remembered love—and about the escape of the spirit that
occurs only through grace. These are disturbing stories that leave the reader,
in the end, full of hope.