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Best Road Yet
by
Ryan Stone
John McNally, author of After the Workshop, says of Best Road Yet, "Ryan Stone understands the yearnings of people down on their luck, those longings and desires that his characters keep to themselves or tell few people, and he captures their struggles and hopes in prose that's as incandescent as a floodlight on a dark night. These are compelling and compassionate and hear...more
Paperback, 190 pages
Published
October 21st 2010
by Press 53
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Ryan Stone's short story collection "Best Road Yet" roams the back roads of Missouri and middle America, finding tortured yet muted characters reminiscent of those in Sherwood Anderson's classic "Winesburg, Ohio."
Stone writes of small town Americans, their hidden lives and their seeming dead ends: losing a job as gravedigger, marrying the wrong sister, abusing a demented parent, fathering a child out of wedlock, succumbing to a faithless wife. People largely from the town of Wynott--with the ans...more
Stone writes of small town Americans, their hidden lives and their seeming dead ends: losing a job as gravedigger, marrying the wrong sister, abusing a demented parent, fathering a child out of wedlock, succumbing to a faithless wife. People largely from the town of Wynott--with the ans...more
The stories in Best Road Yet make for a compelling read, one I didn't want to put down, not even between stories, which is not how I usually feel about short story collections. The stories concern characters from the town of Wynott, a small town in the Midwest with modern small town concerns. The characters and their situations - an unexpected pregnancy, two brothers on a road trip with the intention of getting rid of their aging father, the spouse of a newly rich romance novelist, a drug deal g...more
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Fantastic collection.
Won this one here on goodreads a while back. Have gotten behind on my 'need to read' chores with holidays, but hope to get into this one soon and post a review. Looks very interesting.
Have started reading this one FINALLY. Read title story first. Wow. It's haunting.
Like the writing style, word choice, phrasing, tone.
It's very different from my usual fare. I feel like I'm peeking into the proverbial 'man cave'.
Have started reading this one FINALLY. Read title story first. Wow. It's haunting.
Like the writing style, word choice, phrasing, tone.
It's very different from my usual fare. I feel like I'm peeking into the proverbial 'man cave'.
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